New Delhi, Feb. 20 (TNS): Pakistan has billed India Rs286,000 as route navigation charges for the aircraft used by Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi during a stopover in Lahore and visits to Russia, Afghanistan, Iran and Qatar, according to Times of India.
The data gathered by former Indian officer Lokesh Batra, through a formal application, shows that till June 2016, Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft were used for PM Modi’s visits to 11 countries – Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Qatar, Australia, Pakistan, Russia, Iran, Fiji and Singapore.
During one such visit on December 25, 2015, Modi had a brief stopover in Lahore at the request of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The stopover took place when Modi was returning from Russia and Afghanistan.
For this, a bill of Rs149,000 has been issued as route navigation charges, records accessed from the Indian High Commission in Pakistan show.
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Modi was received by Sharif with a warm hug at the tarmac of the Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore, when he made the unexpected stopover on his way back home following a day-long trip to Afghanistan after concluding a two-day visit to Russia.
Modi was accorded a red carpet welcome as the special IAF Boeing 737 plane touched down in the evening. He took a helicopter to the palatial residence of Nawaz Sharif on the outskirts of Lahore to attend his birthday celebrations.
A bill of Rs77,215 was imposed as route navigation charges by Pakistani authorities when Modi used an IAF aircraft to visit Iran on May 22-23, 2016, and Rs59,215 when he visited Qatar on June 4-6, 2016.
For both visits, he flew over Pakistan. The records were part of a response collected from various missions of India on the expenditure incurred on the visits of Modi on IAF aircraft between 2014 and 2016.
According to the data collected, a total of about Rs200 million has been spent on foreign visits of PM Modi during the period for the use of IAF aircraft.
