India suspends rail service to Pakistan: ministry

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Source: Yahoo, via Agence France Presse

In February, 68 people, mostly Pakistani holiday-makers, were killed in a bomb blast on the "Samjhauta Express" in north India.

The blast was blamed on Islamic terrorists seeking to derail a slow-moving peace dialogue between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.

Bhutto died on Thursday after a suicide attack targetting her vehicle at a campaign rally in the northern Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. Early reports said she had been shot before a bomb exploded nearby.

Her death triggered a wave of violence throughout Pakistan by angry and grief-stricken supporters which has left at least 33 people dead.


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You can bet India is nervous and both countries have had "pissing match" nuclear testing aimed at threatening each other.

Talks between them have been uneasy at best...