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Pakistan cuts last remaining transport link to India over Kashmir dispute

The service, known as the “friendship bus”, which has been seen as a symbolic link between the two countries was also grounded. [Courtesy]

Pakistan said on Saturday it had cancelled a bus linking Lahore with India’s capital New Delhi, the last remaining public transport link between the neighbors divided by a dispute over the Kashmir region.

Islamabad reacted with fury this week after India revoked the special status for the portion of Kashmir that it controls, calling the action illegal, a claim New Delhi denies.

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