The issue of the United Kingdom allowing flights from India while barring the same from Pakistan has snowballed into a bigger India-Pakistan issue as Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's special assistant Dr Faisal Sultan has written to UK health secretary Sajid Javid comparing Pakistan's Covid situation with other countries, including India. Pakistan's human rights minister Shireen Mazari took to Twitter to share Dr Sultan's response and termed UK's approach to India and Pakistan as 'partial'. "UK's Conservative govt with a strong Indophiles' presence playing discriminatory politics against Pakistan on Covid," the minister wrote. From August 8, India has been moved to the amber list allowing India flyers to enter the United Kingdom. Pakistan minister Fawad Chaudhry had tweeted an online petition that calls for removing Pakistan from the red list.

Source: Hindustan Times August 11, 2021 12:11 UTC