Closure of airspace with India to be decided at a time of our choosing: Pak

Foreign Office Spokesperson Mohammad Faisal during a media briefing on Thursday said the issue had been discussed at the highest level

Pakistan on Thursday said it could order the closure of its airspace for India “at a time of its choosing”, but so far no decision has been taken yet. Foreign Office Spokesperson Mohammad Faisal during a media briefing on Thursday said the issue had been discussed at the highest level. “It is one of the many options that are being considered, we can exercise it at a time of our choosing. No decision has been taken as yet,” he was quoted as saying by Dawn.

The FO spokesperson’s comments come a day after Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that no decision has been taken yet to close the airspace to India and any such step would be taken after looking into each and every aspect of the move through consultation.

Qureshi said the issue did come up for discussions during the recent Cabinet meeting but the final decision would be taken by Prime Minister Imran Khan. He had dismissed reports suggesting that the airspace was being shut for India as “speculative”. Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday announced on twitter that the government was considering complete closure of airspace to India and complete ban on use of Pakistan land routes for Indian trade to Afghanistan…

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41 feared dead after Russian passenger plane crash-lands in Moscow: Report

Another 11 people were injured, said Dmitry Matveyev, the Moscow region’s health minister

International News: Forty-one individuals including somewhere around two youngsters are accepted to have kicked the bucket when a Russian traveler plane made a crisis arrival and was overwhelmed on fire at Moscow’s busiest air terminal Sunday, examiners said. Dramatic film shared via web-based networking media demonstrated Aeroflot’s Sukhoi Superjet 100 airplane, land at Sheremetyevo universal air terminal, blazes and dark smoke pouring from its fuselage.

Travelers could be seen jumping onto an inflatable slide at the front and running from the blasting plane as tremendous dark segments of smoke surged into the sky. “There were 78 individuals including group individuals on board the plane,” the Investigative Committee said in an announcement, adding it had gone to the northwest Russian city of Murmansk.

“As indicated by the refreshed information which the examination has starting at now, 37 individuals endure.” Another 11 individuals were harmed, Dmitry Matveyev, the Moscow area’s wellbeing pastor said before in the day. Three of them had been hospitalized yet they were not in a genuine condition, he included. Specialists said they were investigating different lines of request and it was untimely to reach any inferences about the reason for the mishap.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had offered his sympathies to the exploited people’s friends and family, his representative Dmitry Peskov said. Head administrator Dmitry Medvedev has likewise requested an extraordinary council to examine the debacle. The stream conveying 73 travelers and five team individuals had quite recently left Sheremetyevo when the group issued a pain flag, authorities said. “Flight Su-1492 took off on timetable at 6:02 pm (15H02 GMT),” said an announcement from the airplane terminal…