India on Monday decided to resume cross-border transport links with Pakistan, which were suspended on Friday after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi.
However, the Thar Express, linking Rajasthan and Pakistan's restive Sindh province, will remain suspended as per the advice of Pakistan Railways.
The bus services between the two countries will run as per the existing schedule and the Delhi-Lahore train link was restored on Sunday, an External Affairs Ministry statement said.
The two countries have bus service connecting five cities on both side -- Delhi-Lahore, Amritsar-Nankana Sahib, Amritsar-Lahore, Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and Poonch-Rawalakot.
The External Affairs Ministry has issued instructions to extend by a week the visas of Pakistan nationals who were to travel by the Thar Express. It has asked Pakistan nationals, who had arrived here on the Thar Express and intend to return to their country urgently, to approach the concerned Foreign Residents' Registration Office at Mumbai, Delhi and Amritsar for obtaining changes in visas to travel to Delhi to return via Lahore.
They can also approach respective FRROs and FRO offices in Jodhpur and Ahmedabad to get necessary endorsement on their visas to enable them to cross over to Pakistan at the Attari border on foot.
