Gen (retd) Mohammad Ashraf Chaudhry, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Defense, and Dr. M. Stigelbauer, head of an Austrian delegation, and Ambassador designate to Pakistan, signed the MoU. Under the MoU the designated airlines of the two countries would be entitled to operate 13 weekly flights. The Austrian side is allowed to operate its services to Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad with seven, three and three weekly flights respectively whereas Pakistani airlines would operate 13 weekly flights to Vienna with seven, three and three from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad respectively.