{"id":292623,"date":"2019-09-19T06:47:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292623"},"modified":"2019-09-19T06:47:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:47:43","slug":"india-slams-pakistan-for-denying-overflight-clearance-to-modis-plane-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-slams-pakistan-for-denying-overflight-clearance-to-modis-plane-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"India slams Pakistan for denying overflight clearance to Modi&#8217;s plane to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday hit out at Pakistan for denying overflight clearance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s VVIP plane for his upcoming visit to the US, saying Islamabad should reflect upon its decision to deviate from well established international practice and reconsider its &#8220;old habit&#8221; of misrepresenting the reasons for taking unilateral action.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s denial comes days after it refused permission to President Ram Nath Kovind&#8217;s aircraft to fly over it during an official trip to Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a query on the recent denial of overflight clearance, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said: &#8220;We regret the decision of the government of Pakistan to deny overflight clearance for the VVIP special flight for a second time in two weeks, which is otherwise granted routinely by any normal country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday hit out at Pakistan for denying overflight clearance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s VVIP plane for his upcoming visit to the US, saying Islamabad should reflect upon its decision to deviate from well established international practice and reconsider its &#8220;old habit&#8221; of misrepresenting the reasons for taking unilateral action. Pakistan&#8217;s denial comes days after it refused permission to President Ram Nath Kovind&#8217;s aircraft to fly over it during an official trip to Iceland. In response to a query on the recent denial of overflight clearance, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said: &#8220;We regret [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292623","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}