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As per the Google Maps ( by land ) :

** It takes 1.5 hours for 40 km by bus**

Distance between Jaisalamer to Karachi : 452 km


Distance between Jaisalamer to Lahore : 611 km
Distance between Srinagar to Islamabad : 167 km
Distance between Amritsar to Lahore : 50 km

Distance between Jaisalamer to Kabul: 864 km


Distance between Jaisalamer to Tehran : 2095 km
Distance between Jaisalmer to Tel Aviv : 3524 km
Distance between Jaisalmer to Mumbai : 1057 km
Distance between Jaisalamer to Delhi : 751 km

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samjhauta_Express

The Samjhauta Express (transl. Compromise Express)


was a twice-weekly train, Thursday and Monday, that
ran between Delhi and Attari in India and Lahore in
Pakistan.[1] The word Samjhauta means "agreement",
"accord" and "compromise" in both Hindi and Urdu.

Until the reopening of the Thar Express, this was the


only rail connection between the two countries. The
train was started on 22 July 1976 following the Simla
Agreement and ran between Amritsar and Lahore, a
distance of about 50.2 km.[2] Following disturbances in
Punjab in the late 1980s, due to security reasons Indian
Railways decided to terminate the service at Attari,
where customs and immigration clearances take place.
On 14 April 2000, in an agreement between Indian
Railways and Pakistan Railways (PR), the distance was
revised to cover just under three km.

An earlier train ran between Amritsar and Lahore and


vice versa and carried 8,239 persons from India to
Pakistan and 10,360 from Pakistan to India from 28
October 1954 to 30 November 1954.[3]

Samjhauta Express was a daily train when the service


started in 1976 and changed to a twice-weekly schedule
in 1994. Earlier the rakes were returned to the home
country the same day but later in 2000 the rake
remained overnight at that location.
The train's first break of service was when it was
discontinued on 1 January 2002 in the wake of the
terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament on 13
December 2001. Service resumed on 15 January 2004.
Service was also suspended following the 27 December
2007, assassination of Benazir Bhutto as a preventive
measure to deny militants a "high-value target" that
was of great symbolic importance to both India and
Pakistan.[4]

On 8 October 2012, police recovered about 100 kg of


contraband heroin and more than 500 rounds of bullet
ammunition at Wagah border on the train heading for
Delhi.[5][6]

On 28 February 2019, the service was suspended


following the 2019 India–Pakistan standoff. A
spokesman for the Pakistan Foreign Office said that
service was suspended "in view of the prevailing
tensions between Pakistan and India" while it was
reported that India has suspended the running of the
train on its side, due to "drastic decline in occupancy"
and "the suspension of services from across the
border".[7][8]

On 8 August 2019, the service was suspended by


Pakistan following the revocation of Article 370 in
Jammu and Kashmir.[9]

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