The Thar Express is the other passenger railway link between the two countries, running from Karachi, Pakistan to Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. A United States report declared Arif Qasmani to be involved in the attack. Other allegations also concurred on Lashkar-e-Taiba (a Pakistani-based terrorist organization). It has been allegedly linked to Abhinav Bharat, a Hindu fundamentalist group in India. As of 2011, nobody has been charged for the crime yet. Both the Indian and Pakistani governments condemned the attack, and officials on both sides speculated that the perpetrators intended to disrupt improving relations between the two nations, There have been a number of breaks in the investigation of the bombings. The 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings claimed lives of 68 people. On 18 February 2007, 2 carriages of the train experienced alleged terrorist bombings near Panipat, Haryana in India. Plans and negotiations are underway to launch a train service connecting the Pakistani city of Sialkot with the Indian city of Jammu. The Thar Express was launched to connect the Pakistani city of Karachi through the Khokhrapar station and the Indian city of Jodhpur through the Munabao station. Train services Īs per the Shimla Agreement of 1972 and in a bid to restore peaceful ties after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, both nations launched the Samjhauta Express ( Samjhauta means "accord" or "compromise" in Hindi and Urdu), connecting the Pakistani city of Lahore with the Indian town of Attari, which is close proximity to the city of Amritsar. This service was suspended in 2019, as a result of Pakistani fury at the revocation of Kashmir's special status. The bus service was resumed on 16 July 2003 when bilateral relations had improved. While the bus service had continued to run during the Kargil War of 1999, it was suspended in the aftermath of the 2001 Indian Parliament attack on 13 December 2001, which the Indian government accused Pakistan of instigating. The duration of the entire journey is eight hours, covering a distance of 530 km (329 mi).
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Its official name is the Sada-e-Sarhad ( Urdu for Call of the Frontier). In its inaugural run on 19 February 1999, the bus carried the then- Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was to attend a summit in Lahore and was received by his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif at Wagah. The bus was of symbolic importance to the efforts of the governments of both nations to foster peaceful and friendly relations. The Delhi-Lahore Bus is a passenger bus service connecting the Indian capital of Delhi with the city of Lahore, Pakistan via the border transit post at Wagah, which is the only border crossing point between India and Pakistan opened for international travelers. India and Pakistan have no official trade relations due to ongoing tensions. Since the successful launch of the Delhi-Lahore Bus in 1999, both nations have worked to established multiple bus and train services connecting cities across the borders in the Punjab region and Sindh as well as between Indian-administered Kashmir and Pakistan-administered Kashmir across the Line of Control (LoC) – the boundary line denoting rival areas of control in the disputed region of Kashmir, which is not an official international border.
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In 1977, both nations launched the Samjhauta Express connecting the Indian city of Attari with the Pakistani city of Lahore. The Kargil War of 1999 broke out when Indian force sought to repel militants and Pakistani soldiers who had infiltrated across the LoC.īy the 1970s it was possible for foreigners with the appropriate visas for each country, such as those traveling the Hippie Trail from Europe to Nepal, to walk across the border, stepping between the guards facing each other across the line. In the 1990s, the Line of Control (LoC) demarcating the informal boundary between Indian-administered Kashmir and Pakistan-administered Kashmir was the scene of exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Indian forces and infiltration of militants into Indian Kashmir. The train connecting the Indian city of Jaipur with the Pakistani city of Karachi across the Thar Desert was destroyed when the Pakistani Air Force bombed the tracks during the 1965 war. Kashmir and the international border in the divided region of Punjab were major theatres of war during the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 19.
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The First Kashmir War had similarly divided the Himalayan region of Kashmir between the two rivals, causing termination of road links in the region. The partition of India in 1947 led to the termination of most transport links between the newly independent nations of India and Pakistan after the cross-migration of people was completed by the 1950s. Trucks on National Highway 1 (India), waiting to cross Wagah Border