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02 Dec 2025, 4:22 pm

India on Tuesday rejected Pakistan’s allegation that it delayed permission for relief flights to cyclone-hit Sri Lanka, calling the claim “baseless” and “ridiculous.”

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Pakistan’s overflight request, submitted around 1 pm Monday, was cleared by 5:30 pm the same day, a turnaround of just four hours.

MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal described Pakistani reports of a delay as “another attempt of spreading anti-India misinformation.”

Islamabad had claimed its special aircraft faced over 60 hours of delays and that partial clearance issued after 48 hours was “operationally impractical.”