India’s High Commission in Pakistan shows record under RTI ActNEW DELHI: Pakistan has billed India Rs 2.86 lakh as route navigation charges for Indian Air Force aircraft used by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a stopover in Lahore and visits to Russia, Afghanistan, Iran and Qatar, Times of India reported on Sunday. Batra gave a copy of the RTI responses, received from August last year to January 30, 2018, to Indian news agency Press Trust of India (PTI). It is crucial to mention that during one such visit on December 25, 2015, Modi had a brief stopover in Lahore at the request of then Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif. For this, a bill of Rs 1.49 lakh has been issued as route navigation charges, records accessed under the RTI Act from the Indian High Commission in Pakistan show. 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.

Source: Pakistan Today February 18, 2018 19:14 UTC