Guns and tourists: Aboard the unlikely India-Pakistan 'friendship bus'

FILE PHOTO: Passengers disembark the India-Pakistan 'friendship bus' under police guard at a rest stop in Sirhind, India, March 15, 2019. REUTERS/Alasdair Pal

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - One Friday morning before dawn, a half-empty Volvo coach slipped out of New Delhi's Ambedkar bus terminal under armed guard, the sirens of a police convoy wailing.

Carrying a mixture of Indian and Pakistani tourists, the bus, emblazoned with the flags of both countries and the phrase ‘Sada-e-Sarhad’ (Call of the Frontier), is one of the few remaining transport links between the nuclear-armed neighbours, who clashed last month over the disputed Kashmir region in a conflict that alarmed world powers.