India firm on continuing Lahore bus service

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MARCH 4. India today declared its unflagging commitment to the continuation of the Delhi-Lahore bus run, despite a public demonstration to the contrary in Punjab.

``The Delhi-Lahore-Delhi bus service ...symbolises India's constant endeavour to promote people-to-people contacts between the two countries. We wish the service to continue and will provide necessary security to the bus and its passengers,'' a Foreign Office spokesman said.

According to the spokesman, a group of miscreants held a demonstration today in Kapurthala district in Punjab against the Delhi-Lahore bus run. (According to a PTI report, about 70 activists of the Shiv Sena led by the party's Punjab unit president, Mr. Surinder Dogra, stopped the Lahore-bound bus near Phagwara and threw stones at it damaging one of the windows. They also shouted anti-Pakistan slogans.) The local police, however, responded quickly to disperse the miscreants and prevented any harm to its passengers. The demonstration appears to be in retaliation to the bombing of the Jammu-Delhi bus, in which nine people lost their lives on Friday.

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