Less than two months ago, traders in Kashmir celebrated the first trucks, laden with fruits and other goods, crossing the de facto border between the Indian- and Pakistani-ruled sides of the disputed province.
This tiny relaxation of the highly militarised line of control followed massive summer protests in Indian-administered Kashmir, during which up to 500,000 people took to the streets to call for independence and an end of India's oppressive army presence in the fabled Kashmir Valley.

