PAKISTAN’S Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali yesterday said Islamabad planned to resume road, rail and air links as well as increase sports ties with neighbouring India.

Pakistan’s premier restored transport links with neighbour India today, announced full diplomatic ties and called for confidence-building measures concerning their nuclear arsenals.

THE Pakistani Government says it would get rid of its nuclear arsenal if India were prepared to the same.

Pakistan’s information minister today said a telephone call from Prime Minstar Zafarullah Khan Jamali to his Indian counterpart was a critical “icebreaker” in the stand-off between the South Asian nuclear rivals.

Pakistan made a major peace overture to nuclear rival India today with a telephone call from Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali to his Indian counterpart Atal Bihari Vajpayee, state media reported.

Zafarullah Khan Jamali was sworn in as Pakistan’s prime minister today, officially ending the nation’s three-year military dictatorship on a promise to return the country to democracy.