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Pakistan's PM visits Muslim shrine in India

Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was in India on Saturday on a daylong private visit to a Muslim shrine.

Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid hosted a lunch for Ashraf in the western city of Jaipur. Khurshid told reporters that no substantive issues were discussed at the lunch.

Ashraf later traveled by helicopter to visit the shrine of the Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti in the nearby town of Ajmer. Sufism is a more mystical form of Islam that is practiced in many parts of South Asia.

Ashraf and members of his family offered prayers at the shrine amid tight security.

The visit is the first by a senior Pakistani official since a spike in violence on the makeshift border that divides the disputed Kashmir region between India and Pakistan.

Three Pakistani soldiers and two Indian soldiers were killed in the violence in January. India said one of its soldiers was beheaded.

Ashraf was scheduled to fly back to Islamabad later Saturday.

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India, Pakistan resume bus service in Kashmir

An official says India and Pakistan have resumed a bus service in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir near the area where their armies recently engaged in deadly skirmishes.

Indian Kashmir‘s home secretary Suresh Kumar says nearly 120 passengers from both sides of Kashmir crossed the transit point in the Poonch region on Monday.

The bus service as well as trade between Indian and Pakistani controlled portions of Kashmir in Poonch was suspended on Jan. 10 following the worst frontier violence in a decade.

However, another similar bus service at a different frontier crossing had continued unhindered.

Three Pakistani and two Indian soldiers were killed in the recent fighting. Both countries accused each other of starting the violence.

Kumar said trade between the two sides will also resume starting Tuesday.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox World News