{"id":11001,"date":"2019-02-27T18:15:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2019-02-27T18:28:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T10:28:54","slug":"airasia-says-it-is-monitoring-situation-in-northern-india-and-pakistan-as-tensions-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11001","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia says it is monitoring situation in Northern India and Pakistan as tensions escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysia&#8217;s low cost carrier, AirAsia&nbsp;has sent&nbsp;out travel alerts on its North India destinations as tension between India and Pakistan escalates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are closely monitoring the situation in Northern India and any impact to our Amritsar and Srinagar services. Guests are encouraged to monitor their flight status at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q4XduYDiS9\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/airasia.com\/flightstatu<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/airasia.com\/flightstatus\">s<\/a>&nbsp;,\u201d it said via its official twitter handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Indian Airlines reportedly halted services to north Indian cities namely Amritsar, Chandigarh, Dehradum, Jammu, Leh and Srinagar&nbsp;as the tension escalated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Associate Press also tweeted that Pakistan\u2019s Civil Aviation has said that it shut its airspace to all commercial flights as tension between New Delhi and Islamabad, the two countries with nuclear weapons, snowballed since a terror attack in Pulwama, India,&nbsp; on Feb 14, 2019, that killed over 40 over people and injuring dozens more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports,&nbsp;the Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed&nbsp;claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Malaysia\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs&nbsp;said the recent tension between India and Pakistan was&nbsp;a matter of great concern for Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a country with close and abiding relations with both countries, we encourage them&nbsp;to exercise maximum restraint&nbsp;and to re-engage in dialogue and negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;\u201dLike many other countries, Malaysia aims at the creation of a peaceful anf stable international order.\u201d the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In view of the gravity of this issue, the ministry advised Malaysians that they should postpone non-essential travel, particularly to the areas directly affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the High Commission of Malaysia in New Delhi and the High Commission of Malaysia in Islamabad, will continue to monitor the situation and be in close contact with local authorities for the latest update.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysia&#8217;s low cost carrier, AirAsia&nbsp;has sent&nbsp;out travel alerts on its North India destinations as tension between India and Pakistan escalates. \u201cWe are closely monitoring the situation in Northern India and any impact to our Amritsar and Srinagar services. Guests are encouraged to monitor their flight status at&nbsp;http:\/\/airasia.com\/flightstatus&nbsp;,\u201d it said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}