Jammu-Kargil flight launched

Jammu and Kashmir’s Kargil town which remains cut off from the country for six months due to heavy snow fall welcomed the first civil flight on Monday with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on-board, an official said. The air strip so far was used only by the army and the Indian Air Force. Abdullah and some of his ministerial colleagues were on the Mantra Airline flight which took off from Jammu and landed in Kargil.