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No more unchecked access to US, UN diplomats to Pakistan Airports
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by israeli.agent | October 14, 2009 at 10:40 am
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The unchecked ride is coming to an end.
Pakistan has decided to end the unchecked arrivals and departures enjoyed by American and United Nation's diplomats and their luggages through Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport.
They will have to go through normal airport checks from 15 October 2009 onwards.
All US officials and diplomats will now have to go through normal airport checks at the Islamabad Airport as the government has decided to withdraw the extraordinary concession offered to them after 9/11 by former president Pervez Musharraf.
Under the concessions, the US officials and their vehicles enjoyed unchecked arrivals and departures and no scrutiny of their luggage was done at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA), Islamabad
Orders have gone from Pakistan's civil aviation airport authority as per a directive issued by the country's defence ministry.
Pakistani news paper 'The News' quoted sources to say this facility "was massively misused and there were reports of even unauthorised and undeclared import of sensitive material and equipment, including weapons. This fact raised serious alarm bells among the Pakistani authorities and forced them to withdraw the facility that was given to the Americans by the former dictator without proper consultation and consideration
The free access concession was not even available to the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan.
This concession is not even available to the president and prime minister of Pakistan who, though they enjoy full protocol and VVIP treatment, go through the mandatory checks in the US, the sources said.
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at 11:21 on October 14th, 2009
Tit for tat, I guess... or security measures being taken to suppress Blackwater's infiltration... but STOP... what about the other airports... OK, that was stupid, of course the CAA's directives apply to the whole of Pakistan... but yeah, what about the American bases???