UNITED NATIONS, April 6 (Xinhuanet) -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday strongly condemns the attack that took place on a complex housing passengers for Thursday's inaugural bus service in Srinagar in the India-held Kashmir.

    Annan said in a statement that the introduction of this land-mark bus service is a tangible achievement of the composite dialogue between India and Pakistan.

    "Its beneficiaries will be the people of Kashmir, who have beendivided for decades and traumatized by violence," he noted.

    Annan praised the spirit of compromise demonstrated by both India and Pakistan in the course of negotiating this important confidence building measure.

    He hoped the bus service will begin as planned, and that it canhelp pave the way for additional confidence-building arrangements followed by substantive agreements on all outstanding issues, including the issue of Jammu and Kashmir.

    Terrorists Wednesday stormed a complex housing passengers set to take the Kashmir bus service, sparking a huge fire and a fiery gun battle that left both the attackers dead.

    The bus service between Muzaffarabad and Srinagar, the respective headquarters of Pakistan-controlled and India-controlled Kashmirs, will begin on Thursday, which is considered the major confidence building measure between the two arch rivals.Enditem