‘Indophile’: Imran Khan’s minister on UK allowing flights from India

The issue of the United Kingdom allowing flights from India while barring the same from Pakistan has snowballed into a bigger India-Pakistan issue as Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s special assistant Dr Faisal Sultan has written to UK health secretary Sajid Javid comparing Pakistan’s Covid situation with other countries, including India. Pakistan’s human rights minister Shireen Mazari took to Twitter to share Dr Sultan’s response and termed UK’s approach to India and Pakistan as ‘partial’. “UK’s Conservative govt with a strong Indophiles’ presence playing discriminatory politics against Pakistan on Covid,” the minister wrote.

Both India and Pakistan were on the red list of the United Kingdom till the first week of August which means no passengers from these two countries were allowed in the UK.