NEW DELHI, 28 September 2005 — India and Pakistan met yesterday to agree details of new bus services between border cities and discuss an increase in flights as a part of a peace process, officials in both countries said.
One set of talks was held at a hotel in the Indian capital New Delhi on the “operationalization of these two bus links — Lahore-Amritsar and Amritsar-Nankana,” an Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
The Indian delegation is headed by Dilip Sinha, joint secretary at the Foreign Ministry, while Mohammad Abbas, additional secretary in the Ministry of Communications, is leading the Pakistan side for the two-day meeting.
Simultaneously, Pakistani and Indian aviation officials began talks in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near Islamabad, to increase the number of flights and improve passenger services, a Defense Ministry official told AFP.
The Indian side is led by the director general of Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation Satendra Singh, while Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhry, additional secretary of Pakistan’s Defense Ministry is leading his side.
