ISLAMABAD, Reuter, Afghan authorities have offered regrets for an uncleared over fight by an Afghan State Airline Jetliner, a Pakistani Civil Aviation Authority spokesman said.

‘The spokesman, quoted by the official APP news agency, said the Arianna Airline Boeing 727 used an incorrect identification code on Tuesday from Kabul to the northern Indian town of Amritsar.

He said the Afghan plane obeyed Pakistani orders to land at Lahore Airport and was later cleared to fly to India.

Pakistan banned flights to and. from Afghanistan in 1982 accusing Kabul of harbouring the hijackers of a Pakistani air liner but allows over flights by Afghan Air

Article extracted from this publication >> October 17, 1986