India sends reminder to Pak on key meets on Kartarpur

Sources said India had proposed that technical-level meetings be held in the first week of August. This would be the fourth meeting at the technical level, where differences need to be sorted out in order to roll out the pilgrimage corridor later this year.

Pakistan is yet to respond, prompting the Indian side to send a reminder.

India had called for the meetings to be held to work out arrangements and finalise the alignment of the interim approach road for the Kartarpur corridor, develop mechanism to share information about pilgrims between nodal points, develop mechanism to deal with exigencies that arise from the use of the corridor. India had also shared a proposal to finalise the agreement to operationalise the Kartarpur corridor.

The Lahore-Delhi bus service was started in February 1999 and suspended after the 2001 Parliament attack. It was restarted in July 2003. The latest move to suspend the service is in line with decisions taken during a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) held on Wednesday, Pakistan Minister for Communications and Postal Services Murad Saeed said, PTI reported.

Thar Express from Pakistan reached India on Saturday afternoon, while the Karachi-bound train is on way there, PTI reported, quoting officials. The train from Pakistan started from station zero point at 5.20 pm and reached Munabao, India, at 5.40 pm with 165 passengers — 62 Indians and 103 Pakistanis, officials said. The clearance was received at 3.05 pm, PTI reported, quoting a North Western Railway spokesperson.