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Pakistan and India are resuming their air links on Thursday after a two-year suspension, officials said in Islamabad Wednesday.
India suspended air and road links with Pakistan early 2002 following attack on Indian parliament in December 2001.
Pakistan will operate six flights a week between Pakistan city Lahore and Indian Delhi, Pakistan city Karachi and Delhi, Karachi and western Indian city Mumbai, Pakistani Deputy Director General of Civil Aviation Authority Muhammad Abid said.
He said India will operate four flights a week between Delhi-Karachi and Mumbai-Karachi. He said with the re-opening of air flights with India, the Civil Aviation Authority will provide over flight facilities to 100 Indian flights in a week.
A spokesman of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) said that first PIA flight will leave Lahore at 2:20 p.m. Thursday for Delhi to mark the re-opening of air link with India.
The PIA will also restart its flights to the capitals of three South Asian countries Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal from Jan. 1.
Flights for Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal were suspended on Jan. 1, 2002 due to the ban on PIA flights put by India.
(Xinhua News Agency January 1, 2004)
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