{"id":262741,"date":"2019-03-06T06:55:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T06:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=262741"},"modified":"2019-03-06T06:55:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T06:55:43","slug":"pakistan-airspace-fully-reopened-says-aviation-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-airspace-fully-reopened-says-aviation-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan airspace fully reopened, says aviation authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan fully reopened its airspace on Monday, authorities said, days after it closed its skies to all air travel, leaving thousands stranded worldwide as tensions with nuclear arch-rival India soared.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to close the airspace came last Wednesday after a rare aerial dogfight between India and Pakistan ignited fears of an all-out conflict, with world powers rushing to urge restraint.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides claimed to have shot each other&#8217;s warplanes down, and one Indian pilot was captured. He was returned to India Friday, crossing the Wagah border on foot. &#8220;All airports across Pakistan are operational and airspace reopened,&#8221; a spokeswoman for the Civil Aviation Authority told AFP Monday, adding the process had been completed by 1:00 pm (0800 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan fully reopened its airspace on Monday, authorities said, days after it closed its skies to all air travel, leaving thousands stranded worldwide as tensions with nuclear arch-rival India soared. The decision to close the airspace came last Wednesday after a rare aerial dogfight between India and Pakistan ignited fears of an all-out conflict, with world powers rushing to urge restraint. Both sides claimed to have shot each other&#8217;s warplanes down, and one Indian pilot was captured. He was returned to India Friday, crossing the Wagah border on foot. &#8220;All airports across Pakistan are operational and airspace reopened,&#8221; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}