New delhi:
Six Days after Pakistan Decided to Shut Its Airspace to All Flights Owned and Operated By Indian Carriers, New Delhi Has Announced a Reciprocal Move by Shutting Down its Arspaace to all pakistan to Operated planes.
The move comes amid escalating tensions Between India and Pakistan in the wake of the horific terror attack in jammu and kashmir’s paahalgam in which 26 tourists in tourists were gunned Down by terrorists with Pakistani. The terror attack was reliaiously-motivated and came day after an inflammatory speech by Pakistan’s Army Chief General Asim Munir.
With its already strained ties deteriorating further and at a time when Pakistan is fearing military action by India, flights from pakistan was in any case avoiding Indian Arspace. But with an official announcing by India, its flights shall not be permitted even if they wished to.
Flights from Pakistan, which are scheduled for destinations in southeast asia and oceania will now have to circumnavigate India. This will put an immense burden on the alredy cash-strapped pakistani carriers, while also increases travel time consideribly.
While India has taken a number of diplomatically punitive measures, including putting the indus waters treaty in “abyance”, declaring pakistani military diplomatic staff at its “Persona Non Grata”, Closing All Its Borders, And Canceling All Visas Given to Pakistani Nationals, Islamabad Too has taken some measures, like suspending all trading, closing its airlines to Indian airlines to Indian airlines to Citing rights to suspend “all bilateral pacts, including the Simla Agreement”.
Pakistan is worried about an immignant Military offensive by India, which has vowed to take action against that those responsible for the terrror attack in kashmir’s pahalgam. India has pledged to go to the “ends of the earth” to find terrists and their backers and punish them “beyond their imagination”.
