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Indian airline to resume Pakistan flights on Jan 1 NEW DELHI, Wednesday (Reuters) State-run Indian Airlines will start flying to neighbouring Pakistan from January 9, a company official said on Tuesday, after the two countries agreed to resume air links cut during tension two years ago. Flights between the nuclear-armed rivals were suspended after a militant attack on the Indian parliament in December, 2001, that India blamed on Pakistan-based militants. "We're resuming our direct link after more than two years," said Anup Srivastava, spokesman for Indian Airlines. "We will start our regular operations on the Delhi-Lahore-Delhi sector every Friday and Monday from January 9." Ties between the two countries have warmed this year since they began a series of mostly symbolic peace moves. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is due to attend a South Asian summit in the Pakistani capital in January. Meanwhile Indian paramilitary soldiers shot dead four Pakistanis along their desert border, a spokesman for the Border Security Force (BSF) said. The men were trying to enter India when they ran into a BSF patrol at the border village of Karanpore, in the western Indian desert state of Rajasthan, said Mohan Lal Lathar, deputy inspector general of the BSF. "There have been at least two other infiltration attempts from the Pakistani side this week. Today (Tuesday) the BSF challenged the infiltrators and killed four of them at Karanpore," Lathar said. |
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