Pakistan has said that the much-awaited train service between Khokrapar in Sindh province and Munabao in Rajasthan would begin from January next year.

Work is underway to lay a broad-gauge railway track on the Pakistan side and it would be completed by December this year, Pakistani railway officials were quoted as saying by the official APP news agency.

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The track between Mirpurkhas to Jamrao has been completed while the track was being laid from Chhore to Dhorna in Sindh, they said.

External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh, who would be visiting Karachi on Tuesday, was expected to be briefed by officials of the Sindh provincial administration on the progress on the railway line.

The link was snapped after the 1965 Indo-Pak war. During his visit to Islamabad eight months ago, Singh had said that he wanted the train service to be commenced by October two but it was postponed as Pakistan needed time to lay a new broad-gauge track.