NEW DELHI – Over embarassment for India on Pakistani government refusal onModi overflight, Frustrated Delhi mulls action against Pakistan atinternational forum.
India will certainly consider taking Pakistan to the International CivilAviation Organisation (ICAO) if it has violated any regulation of theglobal body by denying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plane to usePakistani airspace for his visit to the United States, Foreign SecretaryVijay Gokhale said on Thursday.
”It’s an unfortunate situation where a country denies overflight to thehead of state/head of government of another country. But it’s true whenthere’s a normal country. Hope Pakistan will realise the folly of itsactions,” he told reporters here, Statesman News Service has reported.
Gokhale said: ”As far as going to any international organisation isconcerned, we’ll take a look at that. So far there’s no intention to do so.”
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Pakistan on Wednesday turned down India’s request for allowing the PM’sspecial aircraft to use the country’s airspace, citing the situation inJammu and Kashmir and India’s attitude as the reasons.
