India has closed its airspace for Pakistani Airlines on Wednesday for more than three weeks. Pakistan to the same step proceeded last week in response to the decision of India to suspend visa services for Pakistani citizens. The latest measure was introduced by our Delhi at the time of the increasing tension between the nuclear powers after the recent attack by the gunmen on a group of tourists in the disputed region of Kashmir. According to Reuters, TASR reports this.
A ban on aircraft registered in Pakistan, machines operated, owned or rented by Pakistani airlines and military aircraft, will pay from 30 April to 23. Maythe Indian government announced.
Pakistan and India, after the last Tuesday’s attack, claimed 26 lives, have introduced several measures against each other. Islamabad has concluded its airspace for Indian airlines and India suspended the validity of the 1960 contract, which regulates the common use of water from the Indus River and its tributaries. Since then, soldiers of both countries have also been fired along the militarized border in Kashmir.
Pakistani Minister Attaullah Tarar at night claimed that Islamabad has credible news that India plans to take a military attack on Pakistan over the next 24 to 36 hours and that he will use the attack in Phalgame as a pretext, where most Indian tourists died.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbáz Sharif then accused India on Wednesday during a call with American diplomacy chief, Marc Rubi that he was taking steps that show signs of “escalating and provocative behavior”.
Indian representatives did not respond immediately, but according to unnamed sources Prime Minister Naréndra fashion gave armed forces “complete surgical freedom in deciding on the way, goals and timing of India’s response to the massacre in Phalgame”wrote AP.
UN Secretary -General António Guterres had previously called on both parties, refrainned to confrontation that could have tragic consequences. Also, Rubio, according to the statement of the Pakistani Prime Minister, stressed that Pakistan and India continue to cooperate in the interests of peace and stability in South Asia.
