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Thursday, December 3, 1998 Published at 14:59 GMT


World: South Asia

Bus service to link India and Pakistan


Officials from India and Pakistan have reached an initial agreement on setting up the first bus service between the two countries.

After two days of talks in Islamabad, the officials initialled an agreement to set up a bus service between the cities of Lahore and Delhi in January.

The BBC correspondent in Islamabad says the agreement is one of the few concrete achievements to come out of this year's dialogue between the two countries.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service



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