Signing off: Pakistani students gesture and shout slogans while watching trucks haul goods across the bridge at the Line of Control on Oct. 21. The decision to open the all-weather road—in a region that is often snowed in during the winter—is a confidence-building measure that came about from a September meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and new Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. It also meets the demands of merchants in India-administered Kashmir, who earlier this year had called for open trade.