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AFP, New Delhi

New Delhi has suspended two train services to Pakistan following violence in the wake of the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, the railways ministry said.

Two trains were "cancelled on security considerations with immediate effect until further notice," the ministry said in a statement late Friday. The "Samjhauta (friendship) Express" runs between New Delhi and the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.

The "Thar Express"-named after a desert-connects India's Jodhpur city to the Pakistani town of Khokrapar and was reopened in 2006 after a gap of four decades to improve relations between the people of the rival nations. In February, 68 people, mostly Pakistani holiday-makers, were killed in a bomb blast on the "Samjhauta Express" in north India.