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Lahore bus: India, Pak to settle accounts
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 20
Pakistan today announced that it would settle within six days about Rs 19 lakh it owes to Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) even as New Delhi and Islamabad agreed in principle to restart the Delhi-Lahore bus service from July 1 subject to the availability of visa to the crew on both sides.

After the second round of talks between officials of two countries here, leader of the Indian delegation and DTC Chairman A J S Sahney and leader of the Pakistani delegation and Deputy Managing Director of Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) Azfar Shafqat told reporters that issuance of visa for the crew of the buses and passengers was subject matter of other departments and the governments of the two sides would expedite the process.