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Pakistan has canceled all flights to PoK’s Gilgit-Baltistan area amid tensions
The choice follows fears of Indian navy motion after J&Ok terror assault.
Pakistan Worldwide Airways suspended all flights to and from Gilgit, Skardu
New Delhi:
Days after shutting its airspace to all flights owned and operated by Indian carriers, Pakistan at this time cancelled its personal flights to the Gilgit-Baltistan area of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The transfer comes as Islamabad fears navy motion by India within the wake of the horrific terrorist assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam by which 26 vacationers have been shot lifeless in a religiously-motivated assault.
Pakistan Worldwide Airways or PIA as it’s normally known as, has cancelled all flights to and from Gilgit and Skardu in PoK. Information studies in Pakistan revealed the flight schedules of PIA on Wednesday, which confirmed that the 4 flights to Skardu – one every from Karachi and Lahore, and two from Islamabad – have been cancelled.
4 different flights from Islamabad to Gilgit have additionally been cancelled, Pakistan’s Urdu day by day Jang reported. One other English day by day Categorical Tribune confirmed the information, saying, Pakistan has stepped up its vigil, particularly in monitoring its airspace amid tensions with India. “For safety causes, all business flights scheduled to function to and from Gilgit and Skardu have been cancelled,” it said.
Pakistani officers have instructed the newspaper that the measures are “precautionary” and geared toward making certain “its airspace” is secured. It’s not clear nevertheless, if this can be a non permanent measure or a long-term one.
Apart from the areas that fall in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Islamabad has additionally heightened its safety and surveillance throughout the nation.
Twenty-six folks, together with a overseas nationwide, have been shot lifeless by terrorists after they have been requested to show their allegiance to Islam. The focused killings, which have been religiously-motivated, have been condemned globally.
Kashmiris have protested all through the Union Territory condemning terror and blaming Pakistan for it, whereas fellow Indians have been equally infuriated over the cowardly act.
The assault was claimed by Pakistan-based terror group The Resistance Entrance – an offshoot of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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