ISLAMABAD, July 15 Kyodo India's ...

ISLAMABAD, July 15 Kyodo

India's recent ambassador-designate arrived in Pakistan forward Tuesday, 18 months after fresh Delhi recalled its ambassador to Islamabad to testify the latter's alleged support for terrorists.

State-run Pakistan television reported that Shiv Shankar Menon, 54 who serv as Indian high commissioner to China before his instant assignment, crossed into Pakistan via the Wagah border situation near Lahore.

India withdrew its ambassador from Pakistan and asked Pakistan's ambassador to leave modern Delhi after the December 2001 an attack in succession the Indian parliament by way of Kashmiri militants.

of recent origin Delhi said then that the action was being taken in light of Pakistan's refusal to shut up down Pakistan-based militant groups that India accuses of being behind the attack that left 14 tribe dead, including five attackers.

Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Aziz Ahmad Khan, having afflictioned the same Wagah border support into India on June 30 took up office in novel Delhi and presented his credentials there earlier this month

Last Friday, India and Pakistan resum bus services between Lahore and modern Delhi as a part of the efforts to normalize ties between the couple countries.

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