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Lifting of ban on overflights not notified: Pakistan

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD JUNE 19. Has India notified Pakistan of the decision it announced on June 9 to allow Pakistani aircraft to use its air space? If reports in a section of the Pakistani press are to be believed, New Delhi has not followed up its announcement with the necessary administrative action as Islamabad has not received anything in writing either from New Delhi or the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

However there was no immediate confirmation of the actual status from the Pakistan Foreign Office.

While the press has quoted civil aviation authorities as saying that New Delhi was yet to execute its decision, a Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman maintained that he needed to check up the facts.

Civil Aviation officials also denied the impression that Pakistan's Foreign Ministry had not passed down the `notem' received from India.

"It is not a secret document,'' an official was quoted as saying by the local daily The News. The report said that as per the procedure, a copy of the `notem' had to be sent to the ICAO, which, in turn, would pass it on to member-organisations to prepare plans to meet the new situation.

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