Fazl sticks with stance on Jewish lobby
Fazl said the route taken by the Israeli plane showed that it landed in Pakistan.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Sunday said that the government of Oman had partially confirmed that an Israeli plan indeed landed in Pakistan.
Talking to reporters after meeting with former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Fazl said the route taken by the plane showed that it landed in Pakistan and Oman had partially confirmed the development.
“Whatever we said about Jewish lobby has proven to be true. We reject the Civil Aviation Authority’s clarification. The plane indeed landed in Pakistan,” he added.
Earlier, the CAA had dismissed rumours of arrival of an Israeli aircraft in Islamabad.
The Government of Pakistan (GOP) re-tweeted the press release of CAA and wrote: “Civil Aviation Authority has categorically rejected any news regarding landing of Israeli Plane in Pakistan.”
CAA in its press release stated that there was no truth to reports of Israeli jet landing in Pakistan because no such aircraft landed at any airport of the country.
On Thursday, an Israeli journalist claimed that an aircraft from Tel Aviv has flown to Islamabad, a claim that sparked outrage on social media. There were also reports that the aircraft carrying a high-profile person stayed in Islamabad for ten hours.
Avi Scharf, editor of Israeli newspaper Haretz, made the claims, further alleging that the pilot could trick and make it appear as a Amman-Islamabad flight rather than a Tel Aviv-Islamabad one.
According to BBC, the plane was not registered in Israel and it actually flew from Oman.
