As the tensions between India and Pakistan escalate, there is an emergency like situation in all Pakistani cities. Last night, there was a complete blackout in Karachi city. The government had directed all the police station house officers across Karachi to remain at their respective offices, last night. Emergency is imposed in Karachi.
Emergency imposed by Pakistan Government in Karachi? pic.twitter.com/dD87hLpLcZ
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) February 27, 2019
BREAKING KARACHI ALERT; All Police Station House officers across Karachi have been directed to remain on duty at their respective offices tonight
— خالد (@khalid_pk) February 27, 2019
Pakistan Army Chief says that India is again planning for a misadventure. There is a high alert in Karachi and Pasni as the reports of Indian navy moving towards Karachi are getting affirmation. Pakistan Air Force is maintaining surveillance across the southern belt of Pakistan.
— Wajahat Kazmi (@KazmiWajahat) February 27, 2019
The Sindh government on Wednesday had also set up the provincial control room in accordance with “the provision of War Book”. It also released a notification which reads, “The Control Room has been operationalized for the purpose of preparedness, monitoring, reporting, taking preventive measures and issuing real-time instructions regarding any untoward emergency situation.”
According to The News.com.pk, Malakand Division Commissioner declared an emergency in all seven districts of the division, in the wake of growing tensions between India and Pakistan.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa area also, leaves of medical staff have been cancelled. Authorities have issued a red alert in the area.
According to the DNA report, there are also power outages in several other areas of Pakistan including parts of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), the Line of Control (LoC), Gilgit-Baltistan Islamabad’s E Sector, Lahore Cantonment, Sialkot Cantonment, Karachi Cantonment, Pasni coast line and Okara Cantonment.
Pakistan has also shut the airspace across the country for 48 hours. No civil and commercial flights are entering in Pakistan.
Latest map indicating how no civil flights are entering Pakistan after Islamabad shut the airspace across the country for 48 hours. This is 4:30am. pic.twitter.com/EiPJPw1xdh
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) February 27, 2019
#Pakistan Airspace still closed – no movement on flight radar pic.twitter.com/y2toES8aHV
— Samir Saran (@samirsaran) February 28, 2019
The country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) tweeted, “NOTAM is still in place & airspace over #Pakistan remains closed. Apology for an earlier tweet that indicated the partial opening of our airspace for commercial aviation. Any further information will be shared accordingly.”
All the aforementioned developments come in the wake of an Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman being captured by the Pakistan forces on Wednesday when Pakistan violated the Indian Air Space. IAF fighter jets brought down the Pakistan fighter jet F-16 which launched a morning raid with an aim to damage Indian troop positions or infrastructure.
Earlier, India conducted an anti-terror strike against a Jaish-e-Mohammed JeM terror training camp in Pakistan Balakot. Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale on Tuesday said that IAF had struck the biggest training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Balakot.” Vijay Gokhale told a press briefing that “a large number of JeM terrorists, trainers and senior commanders were eliminated in the largest JeM camp in Balakot. The camp was led by Maulana Yousuf Azhar alias Ustad Ghouri, brother in law of JeM chief Masood Azhar.”
The air strike was carried out to avenge February 14 terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, by Jaish-E-Mohammad. The International community sided with India after the air strikes on terror camps in Pakistan.