Pakistani minister says Indian visit still on

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's foreign minister said on Monday he was going ahead with a trip to India on Tuesday as planned, despite "horrendous" bomb blasts on a train in India that killed at least 66 people, most of them Pakistanis.

Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri condemned the blasts on the train bound for Pakistan and said, if anything, the two countries should step up their peace efforts in response.

"I will be leaving tomorrow for Delhi to further the peace process," Kasuri told reporters in the Pakistani capital.

India has blamed previous bomb attacks on Islamist militants linked to Pakistan, casting a pall over a three-year-old peace process between the nuclear-armed rivals.

"It is a horrendous act of terrorism which everybody would condemn unreservedly," Kasuri said. "Innocent men and women lost their lives. Most of the dead are Pakistanis."

Officials in India said the attack appeared to be an attempt to undermine the peace process and Kasuri said India and Pakistan should not let the bombers achieve their objectives.

"In fact, if at all, we should hasten the peace process," he said.

The train service links the Indian capital New Delhi with the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, although passengers have to get down at the border and cross on foot before boarding another train for their destination.

Pakistani Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said there were 757 passengers on board the train, 553 of them Pakistanis.

He said Pakistan, for its part, would continue the train service as scheduled on Monday, although security would be stepped up on the Pakistani leg of the journey.

"This kind of incident can't stop good and positive relations between India and Pakistan," Ahmed said.

The Indian High Commission in Islamabad said arrangements had been made to process visas immediately for relatives of people on the train wishing to go to India. A temporary visa office was also being set up in Lahore.