The Samjhauta Express was a train that ran between Delhi, India and Lahore, Pakistan, symbolizing cooperation between the two countries. It began service in 1976 but has been suspended multiple times due to political tensions and terrorist attacks. The last suspension was in 2019 when Pakistan suspended the train in response to India's revocation of autonomy in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. At its peak, the train ran daily but was later reduced to twice weekly. It was the only rail connection between India and Pakistan until the reopening of another train.
The Samjhauta Express was a train that ran between Delhi, India and Lahore, Pakistan, symbolizing cooperation between the two countries. It began service in 1976 but has been suspended multiple times due to political tensions and terrorist attacks. The last suspension was in 2019 when Pakistan suspended the train in response to India's revocation of autonomy in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. At its peak, the train ran daily but was later reduced to twice weekly. It was the only rail connection between India and Pakistan until the reopening of another train.
The Samjhauta Express was a train that ran between Delhi, India and Lahore, Pakistan, symbolizing cooperation between the two countries. It began service in 1976 but has been suspended multiple times due to political tensions and terrorist attacks. The last suspension was in 2019 when Pakistan suspended the train in response to India's revocation of autonomy in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. At its peak, the train ran daily but was later reduced to twice weekly. It was the only rail connection between India and Pakistan until the reopening of another train.
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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]