Special Train with Heirs of Pakistanis Leaves for India Today
‘Pakistan Times’ Special Correspondent

LAHORE: A special train carrying the relatives of the Shamjhota Express blasts’ dead and wounded Pakistanis will be leaving today, Tuesday from Pakistan for taking them to New Delhi.

A visa section has been set up at the Indian Airline Office located at the Davis Road here for the issuance of visas to the deserving persons, where they would be issued temporary visas.

Indian High Commission’s Assistant Counselor, M. K. Mustafa has arrived here from Islamabad in this regard.

Pakistan Railway, on the other hand, has arranged a special train for the transportation of the persons, who could obtain visas, while the train would be leaving tomorrow.

India on Monday set up a temporary visa camp in Lahore to facilitate immediate travel by the relatives of those killed or injured in the Samjhauta train explosion. The visa camp was set up in Air India office at Davis Road.

All arrangements have been made to issue visas on urgent basis to all the relatives of victims of the train blast that killed 66 and injured many.

Temporary visas of 10 days will be issued immediately for the relatives of the passengers who were either killed or injured in the incident so that they could travel to the Indian side.●