ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Foreign Office, responding the Indian authorities’ orders to Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA) staff to leave their New Delhi office and return to Pakistan, said that the matter will be raised before Indian government and resolved soon.
PIA has decided to move the court to challenge the orders by the Modi government. A source said that the Indian government create issues from none and it is really difficult to deal with them.
On Sunday, The Hindu ran a report saying: “India’s Directorate of Enforcement has issued a notice to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) asking it to ‘dispose of’ its properties in New Delhi calling their purchase as ‘unauthorised’.”
The notice sent to the PIA said the properties in New Delhi were acquired in contravention of the Foreign Exchange Management Act and without prior permission from the Reserve Bank of India.
The sources said that the Indian government raised the issue after 10 years and now they are asking the PIA to dispose of the two properties at a prime location. They said that the government of the neighbouring country was asking PIA to dispose of its four flats in Kailash Building in Kasturba Gandhi Marg, covering 2,576 feet area and was being as the offices of PIA.
Last July, it was the same government that asked the UN Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) to vacate a government bungalow it had used for 40 years rent-free.
