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Pak supports Lahore-Amritsar bus service: Elahi
Publish Date : 12/4/2004 1:28:00 PM   Source : Culture and Community News

The Chief Minister of  Pakistan's  Punjab
province,  Chaudhry  Pervaiz  Elahi, has said  that  Pakistan  in
principle  supports  the demand of Sikh pilgrims for  starting  a
Lahore-Amritsar bus service.
 
According  to  the Daily Times, Elahi said that the  bus  service
would help the Sikh pilgrims to visit gurudwaras in Pakistan in a
better manner.
His  statement assumes significance as earlier the government  in
Indian  administered Punjab had also announced that New Delhi  is
keen  to  start the bus service between Amritsar  and  Lahore  to
enable Sikh devotees to visit Gurudwaras in Pakistan.
 
India has proposed to ply as many as six buses each month between
Golden Temple in Amritsar and Lahore.
 
The  Amritsar-Lahore bus service like  the  Srinagar-Muzaffarabad
bus  link  and the  Khokrapar-Munabao rail link will be  seen  as
points for facilitating greater people-to-people contact  between
the two countries.
 
The  Amritsar-Lahore bus service was activated first in  February
1999,  when  India's  then Prime Minister  Atal  Bihari  Vajpayee
travelled  to  Lahore and was received by  then  Pakistani  Prime
Minister  Mian  Mohammad Nawaz Sharif after  crossing  the  Wagah
border checkpost that separates the two countries.
 
The Wagah checkpost is the only land route open between  Pakistan
and India at present. (ANI)