'Nothing special': CAA urges not to stir controversy over India plane

Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Tuesday said that a chartered plane that flew in from India to Karachi on Monday had "nothing special", urging the media not to stir a controversy over the issue.

Media reports yesterday had cast suspicion over the flight which landed in the port city for "unknown reasons". The reports also claimed that the flight took off with ‘12 high-profile Pakistani nationals aboard to Dubai’.

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"Few media platforms have been kicking up controversy regarding a chartered plane that flew in from India to Karachi yesterday," the CAA said in the statement.

It said that the chartered plane registered in Marshall Islands was not special in any way and had nothing to do with India except for it came from Hyderabad Deccan with no passengers.

According to CAA, the chartered plane picked up its 12 passengers from Karachi's JIAP and left for Dubai. "PCAA requests all to follow a diversity of news sources including official version in order to combat the menace of fake news," it further said.

The latest incident took place a month after two planes from India landed in Karachi due to technical issues.