Flight of peace and friendship

Parked in a corner of the Food Court, close to the Pakistan pavilion in the Global Village, is a microlight aircraft.

Last updated: February 14, 2004 | 00:00

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"If our flight can bring light to a blind eye, provide transfusion to a thalassaemic child or refuge to an abandoned one, our efforts will have been worthwhile," says pilot Zaka Ullah Bhangoo. ©Gulf News

Later this year two Pakistani pilots will try to break the round-the-world record for a micro-light aircraft. A plane similar to the one they will fly is on view in the Global Village

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