Pakistan International Airlines said on Thursday that it will operate six flights per week to India from January 2004.

India and Pakistan had on December 2 decided to end a two-year impasse and restore civil aviation links and overflights from January 1. These had been suspended after the December 13 attack on the Indian Parliament.

Pakistan also plans to increase the number of weekly flights to India to 12 by March 2004, according to Kamran Hasan, PIA's marketing director.

PIA will operate two flights each on the Karachi-New Delhi, Karachi-Mumbai and Lahore-New Delhi routes, Hasan stated.

On Wednesday, Indian Civil Aviation Minister Uday Pratap Rudy had said that India will restart flights between Delhi-Karachi (3 times a week), Mumbai-Karachi (5 times a week) and Delhi-Lahore (4 times a week).