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Pakistan and India met on Tuesday to discuss an increase in flights and to agree on details of new bus services between border cities as a part of a peace process, officials in both the countries. Aviation officials of the two countries began talks in Rawalpindi to increase the number of flights and improve passenger services.

Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhry, Additional Secretary, Defence Ministry is leading the Pakistani side while the Indian side is led by Director General of Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation, Satendra Singh.

Simultaneously, another set of talks was held at a hotel in New Delhi on the "operationalisation of two bus links - Lahore-Amritsar and Amritsar-Nankana," an Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

Dilip Sinha, joint secretary at the Foreign Ministry heads the Indian delegation, while Mohammad Abbas, additional secretary, Communication Ministry, is leading the Pakistani side in the two-day meeting.

The two countries agreed in May in Islamabad to run buses between Amritsar and Lahore, but left technical details to be decided at a second round of talks.

They also agreed, in principle, to run a second bus service between Amritsar and Nankana Sahib near Lahore.

After the meeting in May Pakistani delegation leader Abbas had said more preparations were needed before a date for the launch of the 56km service could be set.

"We have to work out certain modalities and as a matter of fact the date depends on the tour operators of the two countries," he had said.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2005


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