The escalating conflict between the nuclear powers India and Pakistan has led to disruptions in air traffic between the Region and the Rest of the world. Because the airspace was closed over Pakistan, also emphasised the Swiss flights and had to take detours.
The Thai Airline Thai Airways canceled all flights from Bangkok to Europe late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. The Indian national airline Air India said all flights to India from Europe and the United States would be diverted via Dubai and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. This will lead to delays. On Wednesday, in the meantime, several airports in the North of India had been closed.
After India’s air force had flown in on Tuesday night for the first Time since 1971, an attack on Pakistani territory and shot down Pakistan according to its own data on Wednesday, two Indian fighter planes. An Indian Pilot had been set. Pakistan’s army spokesman Asif Ghafoor, published on Twitter a photo of the apparently, in the face of the injured Lieutenant Colonel.
in India, a foreign Ministry ordered, according to their own information to the Pakistani Ambassador and complained about this “vulgar display” of the prisoners, which is contrary to international law and the Geneva Convention. India expect his immediate, safe return. From Pakistan no answer came to that.
kills and talk deals
According to the Indian display had been subject to the attack of the Pakistani air force military facilities on Indian territory. India gave him a shot and a Jet from Pakistan shot down. In India, I lost an interceptor.
India’s air attack on Tuesday had taken according to Indian information, a training camp of the Islamist terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed. This was the suicide attack on the 14. February in the Indian part of Kashmir, in the case of the 40 Indian security forces killed claimed.
In a televised address to the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan India offered on Wednesday talks. The government of India, the hindu nationalist party BJP, Prime Minister Narendra modi is under pressure to show strength, because in a few months, a parliamentary election is pending. In the past few days – in the night from Wednesday to Thursday – there were reports of firefights and troop movements along the De facto border in Kashmir.
dispute since 1947
Since the independence of the former British India and its division into India and Pakistan in 1947, the two countries claim the Himalayan valley of Kashmir. You each control a part of and have already led to two wars in the area.
In the Indian part of the population, in contrast to the Rest of the Hindu – majority country is predominantly Muslim- there since the end of the 1980s, violence between separatists and security forces. India accuses the Pakistani military intelligence service, the ISI, of supporting Islamist terrorists in Indian part of Kashmir. Pakistan denies this. (nag/sda)
Created: 28.02.2019, 08:48 PM
