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New Delhi, Feb 19 (UNI) Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon today said special visas will be issued to the relatives of Pakistani nationals who were killed in the Delhi-Attari Special train blasts that killed 64 people and injured 13 others.

''The government will do everything to help the families of the Pakistani victims on humanitarian grounds,'' Mr Menon told UNI.

He said the Railways will issue free passes to them and special trains will be arranged to bring them here.

A visa camp will be organised by the Indian High Commission in Pakistan to facilitate grant of visas to them.

Asked about the number of Pakistani nationals killed in the incident, Mr Menon said this was yet to be ascertained.

Earlier, Mr Menon met Home Secretary V K Duggal and Director Intelligence Bureau P C Haldar to discuss the situation arising out of the fire on the the bi-weekly peace train near Diwana railway station, close to Panipat around midnight.

UNI