India, Pakistan postpone trial run of Amritsar-Lahore bus service

India, Pakistan postpone trial run of Amritsar-Lahore bus service

The Government of India on Friday announced that the trail run of the bus service between Amritsar and Lahore, which was scheduled to take place on Saturday (October 15) has been postponed indefinitely in view of the devastation caused by the October 8 earthquake in both Pakistan and India.
A Ministry of External Affairs spokesman also said that the preliminary discussions for activating the bus service between Amritsar and Nankana Sahib, which was scheduled to take place on October 25 and 26, has also been postponed to a more suitable date.
Commenting on the second consignment of relief supplies sent for quake victims in Pakistan, the spokesman of the ministry said that the train was carrying 68 tonnes of relief goods, instead of the 82-tonnes as mentioned earlier.
The consignment included 5000 blankets, 320 tents, 4.5 tonnes of plastic sheets and 12 tonnes of medicines. He said that it had left the Shakurbasti Railway Station at 10.45 a.m. this morning and would reach Pakistan via the Attari-Wagah railway route in Punjab