NEW DELHI, May 8 (Xinhuanet) -- The India-Pakistan dialogue to speed up the normalisation process as well as talks to resolve a host of contentious issues would gather pace from this week with officials of the two countries braced up to hold a flurry of meetings on a variety of issues, Press Trust of India reported.

    A high-level Indian transport delegation is due in Pakistan to begin talks on May 10 to run a new bus service between Amritsar and Lahore through the Wagah land border.

    The two countries have already committed to run the bus servicecovering 56 kms between the two bustling cities on both sides of the border as it figured prominently in the Joint Statement issuedby the two countries last month.

    The Joint Statement also spoke of running bus services between Wagah and Nankana Sahib, the birth place of Guru Nanak, specially during the festival season. If it was realized, the Amritsar-Lahore bus service would be the third currently operating between the two countries.

    It will be in addition to Delhi-Lahore bus as well as Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service, besides Lahore-Attari train service.

    On May 10, an Indian Coast Guard delegation headed by Director General Vice Admiral Arun Kumar Singh will hold talks with their Pakistan counterpart in Islamabad to discuss an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Pakistan's Maritime Security Agency. Enditem