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...Just six years ago, close to a million combat-ready troops were deployed along the Line of Control - the truce boundary bisecting Kashmir that has functioned as a de facto border between the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled sides of the disputed territory. A 2003 cease-fire agreement managed to pull the two sides back from the brink of what could have been the fourth major war between them. And in the intervening years, as events related to the U.S. "war on terror" came to dominate Pakistan's security situation, the conflict that began at birth between modern India and Pakistan...
...couldn't achieve anything through fighting, hopefully we can achieve peace through trade," Hussain says, moments before his truck trundles across. Here, just beyond the Pakistani village of Chakothi, the Line of Control seems a great deal less menacing. It is marked by a small white steel bridge beneath which flows the shimmering Jhelum river, winding its way between two ranges of hills that compete in scale and beauty...
...Both sides have hailed as historic the opening of trade across the Line of Control. "It is a great day," says Sardar Attique Khan, prime minister of the Pakistan-controlled Azad (or "Free") Kashmir. "We have always demanded that both sides be allowed to interact with each other. We hope that this will allow for that to continue to happen...
...acre piece of land designated for the use of Hindu pilgrims visiting a nearby shrine. The Indian government eventually backed down, but Hindu hardliners subsequently enforced a blockade of the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of India. The opening of cross-Line of Control trade route is seen by some as a concession to the Muslim majority of Indian-administered Kashmir...
...recently told an interviewer that India had "never been a threat" to Pakistan and labeled as "terrorists" the Islamist militants who had fought India in Kashmir with the backing of the Pakistani military, there was outrage in Pakistan and among Kashmiris on the Indian side of the Line of Control...