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NEW DELHI, April 30 — India on Wednesday closed its airspace to aircraft that are registered, operated, owned, or leased by Pakistani airlines, escalating reciprocal aviation restrictions between the two countries in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack.
The move came after Pakistan earlier barred Indian-operated aircraft from entering its airspace, a response to a series of actions taken by India following the April 22 attack in Jammu and Kashmir that left 26 people dead.
As part of its response, India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty, a decades-old water-sharing agreement between the two countries, and announced a set of diplomatic and economic measures aimed at pressuring Islamabad.
