After suspending rail routes, Pakistan now suspends bus services to India
With Pakistan reacting haphazardly over the abrogation of Article 370, and acting like a cry-baby, taking a jittery move, it shut down Samjhauta express. On Friday, after shutting the rail route, Pakistan announced it is going to shut down Thar express and the Delhi-Lahore bus service.
Pakistani’s railway minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad announced that Thar express, the weekly passenger train that connects Khokhrapar in Pakistan with Munabao in Barmer district of Rajasthan will be shut down. With this both the international railway links that connected India and Pakistan have been shut down by Islamabad in the backdrop of New Delhi’s decision to remove the special status for the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Pakistan has also announced that Delhi-Lahore bus service, officially known as Sada-e-Sarhad will be suspended. Murad Saeed, Pakistan’s communication minister in a tweet said, “In line with the decisions of NSC Pak-India bus service is suspended.”
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The service which started in 1999 connected Lahore and Delhi and was not even stopped during the Kargil war. The bus service was suspended only once after the 2001 Indian Parliament attack. It later resumed in 2003.
Pakistan earlier on Thursday announced that it will shut down Samjhauta express, the bi-weekly train that connects Delhi in India to Lahore in Pakistan. People who had already brought the tickets for the train service will be refunded without any deduction.
Meanwhile, the last service of Samjhauta express from Lahore arrived at Delhi railway station on Friday morning. Earlier the Pakistani crew of the train had refused to ply it to Delhi citing security concerns. The claims were dismissed by Indian railways. India also sent its crew and engine to get the train from Wagah border where it was stranded for four hours.
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