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...group of U.S. Airborne Rangers running an exercise] waited at the departure airfield, I looked out the back of the plane and watched two late 1970s pickup trucks hurrying toward us. The men in the trucks were strikingly different than the uniformed Rangers all around me. Some were much older, some had short, well-groomed hair, while a few had very long hair that blew in the wind. Others wore long and thick mustaches or goatees. The mystery men grabbed small black bags from the truck, walked on to the plane, and took seats on the cold metal flooring without...
Mazhar Hussain could scarcely conceal his delight. Revving the engine of his white pickup truck laden with over a ton of rice and spices, the 35-year-old driver from Pakistan-administered Kashmir says his dream would soon be realized. "I've never been to the other side of Kashmir. It is the land of my forefathers, our land," he says, with rising emotion...
...Minutes later, Hussain would become the first driver whose truck would cross the Line of Control dividing Kashmir since Pakistan and India first clashed over this plush valley of vast hills and deep gorges over sixty years ago. As the battle with Taliban insurgents rages on its Western frontier and its economy is roiled by rampant inflation and capital flight, Kashmir - and the gentle thaw in relations with India - has emerged as an unlikely bright spot on Pakistan's dark horizon...
...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...
...That's certainly how the first driver to arrive on the Pakistani side of the once princely state sees it. "I'm very happy. I cannot express my joy," says Taslim Arif, whose pickup truck is carrying fruit and spices. "It's good to be in our homeland, to be among my brothers. If Kashmir stays with India, it will be very bad. We need to be free...