34yearold Pak national arrested

TARN TARAN The 191 Battalion of the BSF on Tuesday arrested a Pakistani national near KK Barrier along Indo-Pak fencing line in the district.

The arrested man has been identified as Muhammad Saiyab,34, of Khanewal district in Pakistan. Battalion commandant Vikran Solanki, said that the man was wandering inside the 100m diameter, along the IndoPak fencing line in the Indian territory when we caught him.

“We have recovered ₹ 24 of Pakistani currency and a matchbox from his possession and he has been handed over to the Tarn Taran police ,”he said.

Notably, Muhammad Saiyab is the third Pakistani national arrested from along the fencing line in the district by the BSF in last fifteen days. NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has agreed to allow the Hindon Air Force Station to be used for regional flights during winters to back up the congested Delhi Airport, aviation secretary RN Chaubey said on Wednesday at an aviation conference.

The air force station is located in Ghaziabad and will soon host a civilian enclave, Chaubey said adding that talks were on with GMR Infrastructure Ltd-controlled Delhi Airport to seek approval.

No airport is allowed operations within 150km of Delhi airport, according to a privatisation contract. Chaubey said he was hopeful GMR will agree. “We have had conversations with them,” he said.

The ministry is not looking at opening the old Hyderabad airport and the HAL airport in Bangalore as the new airports there are not congested.

The ministry, Chaubey said, would act on requests from airlines if they want to use a defence air field and the matter would be taken up with the defence ministry. Air Force Station Hindon, located near Delhi, is a single runway