Lahore-Delhi bus symbol of hope for better relations
(WorldNews Asia)

New Delhi: One Friday morning before dawn, a half-empty Volvo coach slipped out of New Delhi´s Ambedkar bus terminal under armed guard, the sirens of a police convoy wailing. Carrying a mixture of Indian and Pakistani tourists, the bus, emblazoned with the flags of both countries and the phrase `Sada-e-Sarhad´ (Call of the Frontier), is one of the few remaining transport links between the nuclear-armed neighbours, who clashed last month over the disputed Kashmir region in a conflict that alarmed world powers. But as Reuters found on a return trip on what is also known as the `dosti (friendship) bus´, that runs daily except Sundays between Delhi and the Pakistani city of Lahore, it is a...