New Delhi: India on Tuesday firmly rejected Pakistan’s allegation that New Delhi delayed overflight clearance for a Pakistani relief aircraft headed to flood-hit Sri Lanka, calling the charge “baseless and misleading”.

Islamabad’s media and official channels had claimed that India held up the flight’s clearance for nearly 60 hours, portraying New Delhi as obstructing humanitarian assistance in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah, which has left at least 334 people dead, including in Colombo.

In a detailed rebuttal, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) released the sequence of events to counter the narrative.

According to the MEA, Pakistan’s request for overflight permission reached India at around 1:00 pm IST on Monday, December 1, 2025. By about 5:30 pm the same day, India had granted the cle

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