The Thar Express has been running between Jodhpur and Karachi since services resumed on February 18, 2006 after a 41-year suspension.
Marking the resumption of the second Indo-Pak rail link and re-uniting divided families on either side of the border
The bus service was suspended after authorities in PoK did not respond to call from their Indian counterparts.
The railways run the train on Sundays from Delhi to Attari and back, while Pakistan used to run the train between Lahore and Attari. Passengers used to change trains at the Attari station.
Both services have been suspended following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the deteriorating law and order situation in Pakistan.
The bus service was first started in February 1999 but suspended after the 2001 Parliament attack. It was restarted in July 2003.
The government will leave no stone unturned to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice, said Mann.
'We are telling them we have isolated them and their religion as not only unwanted,' says Aakar Patel.
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