After a hiatus, Pak-India Dosti bus, on Friday, once again left for New Dehli from Wagha border. As per details, 16 passengers departed for India following custom and immigration clearance at the border. Dosti bus runs three days a week between Pakistan and India. Pakistan has again tried to extend an olive branch to India by resume the Dosti bus service. As another goodwill gesture, Pakistan also released Indian pilot, Abhinandan Varthaman, on Friday, in an attempt to de-escalate soaring tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad. The big announcement to release Abhinandan was made on Thursday by Prime Minister Imran Khan at a joint session of parliament. He was handed over at Wagah border to officials of the Indian High Commission, sources said. On February 27, Pakistan Air Force (PAF) had arrested one pilot who ejected himself after being hit in the airspace of Pakistan in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Published in Daily Times, Mach 2nd 2019.
