Pakistan-Iran-Bus Service /GNR/
Islamabad-Zahedan-Mashhad bus service: Iranian team due next week
Islamabad, Aug 12, IRNA - A high level Iranian delegation is
due here next week to finalize modalities for launching
Islamabad-Zahedan-Mashhad bus service, sources in Ministry of
Communications said Saturday night.
"The commencement of this new bus service will help promote
people to people contacts and bilateral trade with Iran", they said.
During First Joint Comprehensive Transport Meeting held in Tehran
in April Pakistan and Iran agreed to start regular bus service between
Quetta-Zahedan-Mashhad route and agreed that more routes would be
added later.
A bus between Quetta and Zahedan was running successfully but
Pakistani pilgrims have to travel by local buses to the holy city
of Mashhad, in northeast Iran.
He said that construction work of bus terminal on Pak-Iran
border will be completed by year end.
Minister for Communications Shamim Siddiqui visited Iran in April
and during his visit a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed
between the Ministry of Road and Transportation of Iran and Ministry
of Communications to launch a new bus service.
Both countries have also signed International Road Transport
Agreement which will prove a milestone in promoting trade with Iran
and Central Asian countries.
The source said that under this agreement Iran will provide
transit facilities to all countries which have bilateral agreements
with Pakistan and vice versa.
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