LAHORE, Jan 8: The Pakistan Tourism Develop-ment Corporation sent a bus to Wagah on Tuesday to “receive the Pakistanis stranded in India,” despite a message received from the Delhi Transport Corporation saying the special service had been cancelled.

The authorities concerned in New Delhi had informed the PTDC on Monday that they would not run the two buses, scheduled earlier for Jan 8 and 15, to transport 49 Pakistanis stranded in India to Wagah. The message said most of the passengers had made alternate arrangements and cancelled the reservations. The PTDC was advised, accordingly, not to send its buses to Wagah.

However, to “perform its duty,” as a PTDC official put it, the Corporation sent a bus to Wagah at 3pm. It returned at 5.15pm after a PTDC official contacted Indian immgration authorities to confirm that no bus had arrived from New Delhi.

A PTDC official told Dawn another bus would be similarly sent to the border on Jan 15.