India's prime minister to help send off historic Kashmir bus to Pakistan

  • 12/15/2022
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New Delhi, March 12, SPA -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to Indian-controlled Kashmir next month to inaugurate ahistoric bus service to the Pakistani portion of theHimalayan territory _ one of the biggest confidence-boosting measures between the two countries, a news report said Saturday. The bus service, which is being resumed after almost sixdecades, is part of efforts by India and Pakistan to endmore than 50 years of bitter relations. Singh will see off the bus service's first passengers onthe 170-kilometer (105- mile) journey during a daylong tourto Kashmir on April 7, Press Trust of India reported.--SPA1144 Local Time 0844 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/245923

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