Pakistan

Info minister dismisses reports on missing Malaysian aircraft as speculation

Pervaiz Rashid says there are very few places in Pakistan where MH370 could land. Air traffic data not being hidden.

APP March 18, 2014

quot it was not a balloon which someone can put in his pocket and disappear it was a big plane with over 300 passengers onboard quot pervaiz rashid photo pid

"It was not a balloon which someone can put in his pocket and disappear, it was a big plane with over 300 passengers onboard," Pervaiz Rashid. PHOTO: PID

ISLAMABAD: A day after the Civil Aviation Authority said their radar recordings had no record of the missing Malaysian airliner, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Pervaiz Rashid said that Pakistan's airspace was safe and secure, and that the air traffic control system had picked up no unusual activity with respect to flight MH-370.

Talking to media persons after the inauguration of the Readers Club at National Book Foundation in Islamabad, Rashid said that all data of Pakistan’s air traffic control system was available and that nothing was being hidden.

Commenting about the flight, the minister said that there were very few places in Pakistan where a plane the size of the missing Malaysian airliner could land, these include Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore airports.

"It was not a balloon which someone can put in his pocket and disappear, it was a big plane with over 300 passengers onboard," he said adding that western media reports were speculative at best.

COMMENTS (2)

Karachiite | 10 years ago | Reply

The leaned info minister in the TV interview have many a times mentioned the aircraft as boeing 747...for god sake, the aircraft is a triple seven(777) totally different genre. And coming this from the information minister makes it all the more ludicrous.

Muslim Leaguer | 10 years ago | Reply Dear Minister, this country is full of pseudo-intellectual conspiracy theorists dishing out various conspiracy theories every now and then!

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