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2019-08-28 India-Pakistan
Pakistan considering closing air space to India
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pakistain’s Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
is considering a complete closure of air space to India and blocking Indian land trade to Afghanistan via Pakistain, the minister for science and technology said on Twitter.

"PM is considering a complete closure of Air Space to India, a complete ban on use of Pakistain Land routes for Indian trade to Afghanistan was also suggested in cabinet meeting, legal formalities for these decisions are under consideration ... #Modi has started we’ll finish!," Fawad Chaudhry wrote.

The tweet gave no more details on why Pakistain would be considering the moves against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government now. Officials were not immediately available for comment.

Pakistain had reopened its airspace in mid-July after a nearly four-month closure imposed in February after an attack by a Pakistain-based bad boy group in Indian-controlled Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
led to festivities between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

Each country carried out Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on the other’s territory and warplanes fought a dogfight above the disputed Kashmir region in which an Indian fighter jet was shot down.

The months of restrictions forced long detours that cost airlines millions of dollars.

Modi’s surprise move this month to withdraw the special privileges of Moslem-majority Kashmir has also increased tension with Pakistain.

Posted by Fred 2019-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10328 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Pakistan 

#1 Just found myself daydreaming about west China marching thru KSH, PAK, AFG, IRN, IRQ, SYR and LEB to the Med.

Maybe we won't redraw the maps, yet.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-08-28 16:25||   2019-08-28 16:25|| Front Page Top

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