New Delhi: After a gap of two years, an Indian aircraft flew over Pakistan today carrying 25 tonnes of relief supplies, including a mobile hospital, tents and medicines for the people in and around quake-devastated Bam in Iran where over 25,000 people have been killed.

IL-76 IAF (Indian Air Force) aircraft left New Delhi at 12.30 hours (IST) with five doctors and 60 paramedics on-board for Tehran, on its way to Bam, according to IAF spokesman Squadron Leader Mahesh Upasani.

Two more planeloads of relief supplies would be ferried, officials said and the assistance would include 10,000 blankets, 1,000 tents, and a full complement of doctors to set up a 75-bed mobile hospital along with an operation theatre and medical supplies for four weeks.

Separately, 600 tonnes of high protein biscuits, which have reached Bandar Abbas will, for the present, be dispatched to Bam, to meet the emergency requirements.

Air links between India and Pakistan were snapped on January 1, 2002 in the wake of December 13-terror attack on Indian Parliament. The two sides have agreed to restore these links from January 1, 2004.

The over flight of the IAF IL-76 relief missions has been permitted as a special gesture by Pakistan. Coincidently, the last flight to over fly Pakistan was also an IL-76, which flew stranded Afghan diplomats from Kabul to Delhi.