Indian bus controversy

Published October 15, 2005

LAHORE, Oct 14: The Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation’s regional office is not expecting Indian bus on Sunday (tomorrow), earlier scheduled for a trial run between Amritsar and Lahore.

When contacted, a senior official said on Friday that they had no information in writing that the Indian bus was not coming from Amritsar on Sunday. He said the office had got this information from newspapers.

Answering a question, the official said that he had contacted the head office that responded that the foreign office had asked the Indian government not to run the bus on a trial basis from Amritsar to Lahore on Sunday. But, he said, the PTDC regional office did not get any thing in writing in this regard.

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