Pakistan

Promise delivered: Special flight to take rescued Indians to Delhi

The special flight will take Chinese and Indian nationals to Beijing and New Delhi

Kamran Yousaf April 08, 2015

PHOTO: AFP

ISLAMABAD:

India has accepted Pakistan’s offer to transport 11 Indian nationals back home through a special flight who reached Karachi Port along with 146 Pakistanis from Yemen.

Pakistan’s High Commissioner to New Delhi Abdul Basit in a twitter message said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had offered a special aircraft to take the 11 Indians from Pakistan to India.

Shortly after the offer was conveyed by the mission to the Indian government, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs India, Syed Akbaruddin took to Twitter to confirm that India has accepted Pakistan’s offer.

“India accepts Pakistan’s offer to fly back from Karachi by special plane 11 Indians evacuated by Pakistani naval ship from Yemen,” he tweeted.

The special flight whose schedule is yet to be announced, will take Chinese and Indian nationals to Beijing and New Delhi, respectively.

The development may help the two nuclear-armed neighbours to move closer to the resumption of stalled dialogue.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 8^th, 2015.

COMMENTS (8)

Sach Bhol | 9 years ago | Reply @Indian Observer: That's the Pakistani version of journalism -- publishing only those views that make Pakistanis make feel good. Objectivity and accuracy are alien to Pakistan's media which is largely controlled and used as propaganda tools by the powers that be. @Tamorlane Your rant and totally out-of-context diatribe are typical of your irrelevant comments. When will you and your countrymen learn to open your eyes and see that real world around you. Don't be a Rip van Winkle. He had his quota of sleep but you seem to continue to snore.

Indian Observer | 9 years ago | Reply You didnt publish my retort to Timorlane's out of context and nonsense post but still continue to publish his nonsensical posts which have nothing to do with the article.

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Timorlane | 9 years ago | Reply @kartikey mishra: Samjhota Express was burned by Hindu terrorists in Indian army and RSS for example Prasad Shrikant Purohit and Swami Aseemanand. You can't hide every fact under the propaganda rug.

kartikey mishra | 9 years ago | Reply @Timorlane: Samjhota express train bomb blast carried by lashkar & pakistani terrorists.India & RSS have nothing to do with bomb blast .its a wrong story published Once & Forget by Congress to Target the Mighty BJP But nothing to invastigate because its pakistani based terrorists like sayeed who dont want good ralation with India have carried that attack.U pakistan is also start blaimimg India in baluchistan.pakistan said India Invole In Baluchistan. how truth is that .baluchistan is far more than 1000kms. so how can India Involve.we Indians are Complaining that why India is not involve in baluchistan. we want to teach pakistan a lesson so we have to Invole in Baluchistan,Sindh,KPK,and otherbecause pakistan uses jihaddis in kashmir so we can also use like that...hope Indian govt Must realise that & must Involve in baluchistan as like pakistan Involve in kashmir.Ajeet Doval Knows that very well ....

sss | 9 years ago | Reply Thanks Pak.

Anon | 9 years ago | Reply @Timorlane: Where does this fit into this story?

Timorlane | 9 years ago | Reply I pray for the departed souls of the more than 50 innocent Pakistani children, women and men who were guests in India and were burned alive in Samjhota Express by Hindu terrorists belonging to India's ruling Singh Pariwar and who are honorably released by Indian courts to the shameful silence of Pakistani government and Indian servile Pakistani media

Salim | 9 years ago | Reply What a change! Our coast guards usually bring "Indian Fishermen" fishing illegally in Pakistani waters to the shore and then they are taken to the lock up. This time the Navy brought 11 Indians from Yemen and government is helping them to go back to India.

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