India suspends bus, rail services

NEW DELHI—India has suspended railway and bus services to and from Pakistan in the wake of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Officials in New Delhi did not say when the service would be restored. Authorities are concerned that violence by angry Bhutto supporters in Pakistan will spill across the border into India.
Militants have targeted trains in the past, including the fatal firebombing of a Pakistan-bound train in India earlier this year. Sixty-eight people were killed in that February attack. The assassination of Benazir Bhutto and developments in Pakistan were a matter of serious concern to India and “proved” correct Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s observations that both countries faced common threat of terrorism, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan said. “We have always been worried about security situation in Pakistan as our Prime Minister had said at one stage for which he was criticised,” Narayanan told reporters on the sidelines of a function here on Saturday.—Agencies