India-Pakistan hold talks on Amritsar-Lahore bus service

Restoration of communication links between the coast guards of the two countries and liberalising procedures for repatriation of fishermen who stray into each others' waters, were other issues which were discussed.

An Indian delegation of transport officials, headed by Secretary Transport Alok Rawat discussed with the Pakistani officials modalities of Amritsar-Lahore bus service linking the two Punjabs.

The two countries had agreed in principle to run the bus during President Pervez Musharraf's visit to India last month. The talks would end on Wednesday.

India and Pakistan already run bus services between Lahore and New Delhi and Srinagar to Muzaffarabad and a train service between Lahore and Attari near Wagah border point in Punjab.