MIRPUR/DELHI (Agencies) - India and Pakistan open a historic trade link across Kashmir for the first time in six decades on Tuesday (today), a step aimed at reducing tensions between the two countries. The decision, taken in September last, to allow limited trade across the Line of Control symbolises attempts to solve the dispute by creating "soft borders" allowing the free movement of goods and people. A trade delegation from AJK Chamber of Commerce and Industry also made a weeklong visit to IOK to discuss the modalities. Trial run of dry trucks has already been conducted successfully on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Poonch-Rawalakot routes. On Tuesday (today) 15 trucks with specified gift items are due to come to AJK from Occupied Kashmir. An equal number of trucks carrying gift items are scheduled to leave for Occupied Kashmir from Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot the same day. For the time being, trade will take place just once a week, with a limited list of goods allowed. As decided truck service will ply twice a week for both sides of the LoC through stipulated Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot-Poonch routes. In IOK, the trucks would undergo X-ray scanning at newly installed facility before reaching inspection and export halls and finally the godown, according to media reports. All security arrangements have been put in place. Senior officials will inspect the arrangements. Meanwhile, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon Monday indicated that the opening of the Poonch-Rawlakot route might be delayed as Islamabad needed 'more time.' "All arrangements are in place. We are ready from our side," Menon told reporters when asked about the launch of trans-Kashmir trade Tuesday. "The Pakistan side says they need a little more time. We hope we will be able to open it," Menon said about the opening of Poonch-Rawlakot route - six decades after the two countries snapped commercial ties through the route following the 1948 war.