AN INDIAN pilgrimage, planned for later this month by one of the city's leading minority support groups, has been cancelled and a second trip put on hold indefinitely.
It comes as Home Secretary Jack Straw warns Britons to leave India because of feared hostilities with neighbouring Pakistan.
Now the president of the Gujarat Hindu Society, in South Meadow Lane, Preston, is urging people to think twice before travelling to the country and is calling on people to cut-short or postpone plans if possible.
The society's president Ishwer Tailor said: "People who have gone there to visit loved ones particularly old relatives will be reluctant to leave as they only spend a short time there, they won't want to rush home.
"I advise people to use their judgement, we had planned a pilgrimage to India in June but we have cancelled it and the one scheduled for December is on hold."
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