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Samjhauta Express blasts: why does passenger safety figure so low in the railways’ priorities?

Relatives of blast victims enter India via Wagah. <i>Rana Simranjit Singh</i>
‘A Pakistani, he was born here, will be buried here’

Wednesday , 21 February '07

It’s 2 am and the family from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, is the first to claim bodies from the 67 lying at the Panipat Civil Hospital mortuary. It has not been an easy decision.
Probe looks at material used in blast to connect the dots

Wednesday , 21 February '07

Starting from the kind of explosives used in Sunday’s blast on the Samjhauta Express, investigators have put a whole set of such attacks under the scanner
Samjhauta today will have no unreserved seat, 6 fewer coaches

Wednesday , 21 February '07

The Samjhauta Express that leaves tomorrow night will be slightly different from the one that left on Sunday. To secure the train
To build fire-retardant coaches, Rlys signed French deal, then sat on it so long that it expired

Wednesday , 21 February '07

Lost in the tragedy of the Samjhauta Express attack is one familiar story: five years ago, if coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express turned into a veritable death-trap in Godhra once the fire began
Railway terror: the track record

Wednesday , 21 February '07

Two militants carry out attack. 4 killed, 12 injured
Could be work of Hindu extremists, says Pak paper

Wednesday , 21 February '07

A section of the Pakistani media today said that the Samjhauta Express blasts may have been the handiwork of “Hindu extremists”...
Group with Lashkar links sets up aid centre across the border

Wednesday , 21 February '07

An organisation established by Lashkar-e-Toiba founder Hafeez Muhammad Sayeed has set up a mobile operation theatre on Pakistan’s side
Separatists worried at impact ahead of talks with Kasuri

Wednesday , 21 February '07

The attack on the Samjhauta Express has cast a cloud over the talks Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Ahmed is scheduled to have with Kashmiri separatist leaders on February 22.
N Railways kept security moves on hold

Wednesday , 21 February '07

Proposals worth Rs 17.71 crore put forward by the Railway Protection Force to procure Explosive Vapour Trace detectors
From hope to despair in four hours

Wednesday , 21 February '07

Nasir Ali Khan and his younger sister Zakira did not want to believe that one of the several caskets lined up along the corridor leading from the mortuary to the OPD at Panipat Civil Hospital could contain a charred body vaguely resembling their Baaji
Witness fails to identify suspect

Wednesday , 21 February '07

At 2 am on Tuesday, a police team reached the burns ward of the Safdarjung Hospital here with a suspect.
At Diwana, back on graveyard shift

Wednesday , 21 February '07

Long after the last television van had left the scene and the last journalist had found his quote...
From Lahore and karachi, a trauma trip

Wednesday , 21 February '07

It is going to be a lonely ride through the night for the first nine Pakistanis who crossed over to identify their loved ones killed in the blast on the Samjhauta Express.
Ruksana and Rana’s UP relatives at the Safdarjung hospital on Monday evening. <i>Ruhani Kaur</i>
‘They were playing and shouting, then I saw my five children die’

Tuesday , 20 February '07

Shortly after the Samjhauta Express pulled out of Old Delhi station last night, it was 11 pm, way beyond their bed time but they were too excited to sleep.
‘2 got off train when it started, 2 before blast’

Tuesday , 20 February '07

Four men who are said to have got off the Samjhauta Express — two as the train pulled out of the station, two as it slowed down before Diwana last night — could hold the key as investigators set out to put the pieces together.
Panipat calls Pak to hear: Yes, my father was on that train

Tuesday , 20 February '07

Nil recovery. Of the 67 bodies at the Panipat Civil Hospital morgue, 50 carried this tag. Bodies charred beyond recognition, identification has become a difficult task.
Two clerks suspended for issuing tickets without passports

Tuesday , 20 February '07

All passengers who boarded the 4001 Up Samjhauta Express on Sunday evening had to have valid passports and visas.
Terror hits Pakistan, India

Tuesday , 20 February '07

As news of the blasts on board the Samjhauta Express, perhaps the most enduring symbol of the Indo-Pak people-to-people relationship
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