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MUMBAI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to use Pakistan airspace for his Bishkek visit, says Foreign Office.

According to an official, Modi’s plane will fly over Karachi to reach Gwadar and then Iran.

On June 8, Pakistani authorities had received a formal request sent by the Indian High Commission to allow Narendra Modi’s aircraft to fly over its airspace on June 13.

Pakistan closed its airspace in February after suicide attack on Indian troops in Pulwama district in Indian Occupied Kashmir led to aerial bombing missions on each other’s soil and a fighter dogfight over Kashmir.

 

 

 

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.