Islamabad: Pakistan has restricted the entry of the Pak-India Dosti bus service in citing increased “terror threats”. The service of bus had been restricted in Lahore and Nankana Sahib.
The bus service between the two countries was started March 16, 1999 primarily to enhance people-to-people contact.
PTI reported that Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation has said the Pak-India Dosti bus service will now on be operated only up to Wagah Border, reported PTI.
An official of PTDC said, “The PTDC has shifted the entire bus operation at its sub-office at Wagah. Passengers leaving for New Delhi and Amritsar from here will now have to catch the bus at Wagah.
Similarly, those arriving here from across the border by the service will disembark at Wagah too.”
He clarifies that the decision had been taken in the wake of growing terror threats.
Notify that Taliban militants had killed 150 people mostly children at an army-run school in Peshawar on December 16 and now the Nawaz Sharif government is not taking chances with regard to security matters.
Officials said, “Although it will cause hassle for the passengers of the both sides but we have taken the steps for their security.”
Bureau Report
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