Amritsar, Dec 31 (IANS) Around 500 passengers arrived Monday on the Samjhauta Express from Pakistan Monday at the Attari station here, thankful to have returned safely after the train was pelted with stones at some places during the vio0lence that followed the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
The train arrived at the Attari station in India, 25 km from this Sikh holy city, Monday afternoon.
The train, which was cancelled following violence in Pakistan after the Bhutto assassination, resumed its return journey Monday. It was subject to stone pelting near Lahore, passengers said.
The train runs twice a week between Lahore in Pakistan and Attari here.
“We were scared by the stone pelting, but are happy to be back,” a woman passenger said.
According to other passengers, violence was widespread in Pakistan in the days immediately following Bhutto’s killing but things were a little better now.