Pak to let Modi’s plane use its airspace

lahore, June 10 

Pakistan on Monday decided in principle to let Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aircraft fly over its airspace to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan where he has to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit on June 13-14.

His Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan would also be attending the summit. Pakistan fully closed its airspace on February 26 after an 

IAF strike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp in Balakot. Since then, it has only opened two routes of total 11. 

India requested Pakistan to let PM Modi’s aircraft fly over its airspace to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. The official confirmed that the Imran Khan government has approved in principle 

the Indian government’s request to let the aircraft fly over the Pakistani airspace.

“The Indian government will be conveyed about the decision once the procedural formalities are completed,” the official said. — PTI