Promise delivered: Special flight to take rescued Indians to Delhi

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

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.