WONG:
After weeks of tension over a shrine, Kashmir is now limping back to normal. Here's more.

STORY:
The shrine row in Muslim dominated Kashmir Valley in India's northern Jammu seems to have come to a close.

Muslim separatists suspended a shutdown until Friday 22--sending the valley into a buzz of activity.

Schools, shops and business establishments opened on the 19th following the decision to call off the shutdown.

[Shabir, Jammu Local]:
"Today after 10-15 days, things are returning to normal. Shopkeepers have opened their shops and are cleaning the shops. If God's will be, things would be normal now."

Separatists had called a shutdown on August 11 to protest against the alleged "economic blockade" of the valley.

The separatist group says they have decided to suspend the shutdown because of the effect it has had on the locals.

The state government has denied any economic blockade.

The dispute began after the Kashmir government promised to give forest and to a group that runs a cave shrine visited by Hindu pilgrims. Many Muslims were enraged.

The government then backed down from its decision, which in turn angeredmany Hindus in Jammu. Protests and violence have been occurring throughout the Jammu region.