A plane that flew from Tel Aviv to Islamabad has stirred a controversy in Pakistan, a country which has no diplomatic ties with Israel. It spurred battle of blamegames on Twitter between government and opposition leaders on the matter of Israeli Plane in Pakistan.
Here are the details about the mysterious Israeli aircraft.
Israeli Plane in Pakistan
The storm began with a tweet from an Israeli journalist Avi Scharf.
Israeli 🇮🇱 bizjet flew from TLV to Islamabad, #Pakistan 🇵🇰, on the ground 10 hours, and back to TLV.
Cleared flight-plan with usual 5min groundtime trick in Amman
M-ULTI glex pic.twitter.com/haHn1NU73L— avi scharf (@avischarf) October 25, 2018
While, it is not sure who travelled in the plane, the tweet of Avi Scharf was enough to cause an uproar in Pakistan. The response came from PML-N MNA Ahsan Iqbal who asked government in a tweet to clear the real situation about the event. Later, Information Ministrer Fawad Chuhdhry came up with aggressive reply.
But, was the plane really Isreal based or not?
Avi Scharf Reveals Whether Plane Was Israeli or Not
Earlier it was revealed that the plane was not Israeli and it was registered in Isle of Man with Multibird Overseaes Ltd. as the registered owner. Israeli plane that entered in Pakistan had a core number of 990, register number of 928, serial number of 9394 and it was menufactured by Bombardier Inc. So, according to these facts, it was clearly not an Israeli plane.
But, information revealed by the journalist Avi Scharf later showed something else.
According to Scharf’s tweet the plane was indeed registered in Isle of Man firm Multibird Overseas but it was based in Tel Aviv, and it flew out of Tel Aviv and even chartered for business passengers on regular basis.
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People keep asking, so i will repeat. M-ULTI is reg in Isle of man, firm called "Multibird overseas"). however, according to flight records it's based in Tel Aviv, flying regularly out of TLV, even chartered for biz passengers, see @omar_quraishihttps://t.co/HMEuOiZ1JS— avi scharf (@avischarf) October 27, 2018
So, the tweet clears one thing that plane was Tel Aviv based, but it is not sure who flew in it.
Scharf also released the details of the flight path but expressed that he was not sure whether plane landed in Islamabad or not.
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Re-appeared (24Oct, 00:40 UTC) descending into Islamabad, still sqwk 0757 and type. Desc to 20K feet, and then lost track again
After 10 hours (11:20 UTC), re-appeared heading SW from Islamabad, continued same track back to Amman, then TLV
>>— avi scharf (@avischarf) October 27, 2018
According to Avi’s tweets after entering Islamabad plane lost track for 10 hours but it is not sure whether it landed there and who was in it. But, it shows that plane remained in territory at least for 10 hours.
While, there are no diplomatic ties between Pakistan and Isreal; Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated about Pakistan in his visit to India that Israel was not Pakistan’s enemy.
Feud Over Israeli Plane in Pakistan
حکومت حقیقی صورتحال فوری طور پہ واضح کرے https://t.co/8dFKV9sWBt
— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) October 27, 2018
Response of Information Minister on Israeli Plane in Pakistan
Information Minister Fawad Chauhdry responded to Ahsan Iqbal’s plane question by saying, “Imran Khan is not like Nawaz Sharif whose fake cabinet has fake Aristotle like you. We will neither have secret negotiations with Modi nor with Israel.”
If you were worried about Pakistan as much as you show, you wouldn’t have been in such condition. So, dont show fake worrisome, as Pakistan is in safe hands.”
حقیقی صورتحال یہ ہے کہ عمران خان نواز شریف ہے نہ اس کی کابینہ میں آپ جیسے جعلی ارسطو ہیں، ہم نہ مودی جی سے خفیہ مذاکرات کریں گے نہ اسرائیل سے، آپ کو پاکستان کی اتنی فکر ہوتی جتنی ظاہر کر رہے ہیں تو آج ہم ان حالات میں نہ ہوتے، اس لئے جعلی فکر نہ کریں ،پاکستان محفوظ ہاتھوں میں ہے https://t.co/JUtbZQbArj
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) October 27, 2018
The debate has not ended here as people are still insisting that there is something wrong about Israeli Plane in Pakistan.