Updated Dec 11, 2020 | 14:01 IST Five decades earlier, trains used to frequently run through this route to what was then East Pakistan but that came to an end during the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war. PM Modi and Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Haldibari-Chilahati rail route on December 17.  |  Photo Credit: PTI Key Highlights The Haldibari and Chilahati stations were also part of the old broad gauge railway route that connected Siliguri and Kolkata running through what is present-day Bangladesh Every year, thousands of Bangladeshi nationals frequent Siliguri and other nearby areas to avail of education and healthcare services and conduct commercial activity