India and Pakistan have agreed to resume air links and allow overflights after almost two years suspension and ahead of a planned visit by India's prime minister to Islamabad next month for a regional summit.
An Indian aviation official said the two sides reached the agreement during officials talks in New Delhi.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf yesterday offered to end a ban on Indian flights over Pakistani territory, the main obstacle to resuming air links severed since January, 2002, over an attack on India's parliament that New Delhi blamed on Pakistan-based militants.
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is due to travel to Islamabad for the summit of the South Association for Regional Cooperation that runs from January 4th-6th.