Talks on Pak-India bus and air services to begin on September 27

26 Sep, 2005

Pakistan and India on Tuesday will start hectic rounds of talks on a number of issues including bus services and aviation agreement ahead of the third round of composite dialogue process scheduled in January next year.
Officials said the two countries have planned about 30 meetings in the next three months.
These would include technical talks to begin truck services across the Line of Control (LoC) and bus service between Poonch and Rawalkot.
A delegation of Pakistan officials, headed by Additional Secretary of Communications Muhammad Abbas would leave Islamabad for New Delhi on Monday to hold final round of technical talks on the proposed Amritsar-Lahore and Amritsar-Nankanasahib bus services.
Officials here said the talks would finalise all issues including modalities relating to bus services on the two routes.
Meanwhile, a delegation of Indian officials, headed by Director General Civil Aviation would arrive here on Monday for talks with their Pakistani counterparts from Tuesday to review the Air Services Agreement.

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