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Indian women

on goodwill bus

trip to Lahore

NEW DELHI: A 35-member Indian women delegation including a few members of Parliament, will travel on a goodwill trip to Pakistan by the Delhi-Lahore bus on Saturday.

The participants, drawn from various women's organisations, include former Rajya Sabha MP Nirmala Deshpande and former National Commission for Women Chairperson Mohini Giri.

Organised by Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia, a forum of several women's organisations working for peace in the region, the trip will include several meetings in Lahore and Islamabad, N. Vasudevan, secretary of Rajghat Samadhi Committee, said.

Founded in 1999, the organisation had been engaged in working with several groups for the cause of peace in South Asia.ÑPPI