Air India offered a “subsidy model“ to proportionally offset its losses from the impact. The embargo on the usage of Pakistan airspace for Indian flights was decided in an extraordinary meeting of the National Security Committee meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in the aftermath of India‘s provocative act under the cover of the Pahalgam attack.
It is important to note that tensions between Pakistan and India have increased since baseless allegations were made against Pakistan by India following the Pahalgam attack in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), where 26 persons were killed, many of whom were tourists.
Without producing any evidence whatsoever, shortly after the attack, India alleged that the attack was carried out from Pakistan. India‘s foreign ministry had announced to indefinitely suspend the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 and stop the deployment of the Attari and Wagah borders.
Pakistani nationals will no longer be able to travel to India under the SAARC visa exemption. Likewise, the Indian foreign ministry would not only recall its defense attachés from Islamabad.