Pakistan has denied airspace clearance to a Russian cargo flight carrying a uranium shipment bound for Bangladesh’s Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, disrupting the delivery that was scheduled to arrive on September 24. Bangladesh’s minister for science and technology, Faqir Mahbub Anam, confirmed the delay, saying the flight was not permitted to use Pakistani airspace because of “technical issues”.
“We heard that a cargo plane carrying uranium for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh was scheduled to arrive on September 24. However, the flight was not given permission to use Pakistani airspace, so the uranium did not arrive in Bangladesh as planned,” Anam told news agency ANI.
