Pakistan and India agreed to start a historic bus service between the capitals of divided Kashmir, the first direct land-link between the two sides of the Himalayan province that has been at the heart of decades of disagreement and bloodshed. The agreement was announced during a visit by Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh to the Pakistani capital. The bus service, between Muzzafarabad on the Pakistani side and Srinigar on the Indian side, will start April 7, said Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri. «We have agreed between us on mutually acceptable procedures for establishing a bus service between Srinagar and Muzzafarabad,» Singh said. Singh's visit is the first bilateral trip by an Indian foreign minister to Pakistan since 1989 and is part of a dialogue begun early last year to bury decades of hatred between the South Asian nuclear-armed rivals.
