Pakistan may lay claim on name "India" if India derecongnises it officially at UN level: Report
New Delhi: Local reports in Pakistan say the country may lay claim to the name 'India'. This comes after the opposition party claimed that the central government is planning to change the country’s name to Bharat, reports The Week.
On Tuesday a political row erupted over the name of the country after the government sent out a G20 Summit dinner invitation that refers to President Droupadi Murmu as the “President of Bharat”, and not the President of India.
A tweet from the X handle of South Asia Index stated if India derecognises its name at UN level officially, Pakistan may claim on the name ‘India’.
"Pakistan may lay claim on name "India" if India derecongnises it officially at UN level. - local media.Nationalists in Pakistan have long argued that Pakistan has rights on the name as it refers to Indus region in," the tweet said.
The tweet handle also claimed that the government in India is set to change the name of the country from India to Bharat in an attempt to "decolonise" India pointing out that the name Bharat has roots in Sanskrit language & is also the name of a famous medieval era King of this region.
The Indian government has not yet made any official statement on changing the name of the country.
“India refers to Indus region, basin of mighty Indus River, spanning much of modern day Pakistan,” the handle tweeted, adding that “Jinnah had objected to British India adopting "India" as its name for newly independent country & had suggested Hindustan or Bharat instead.”
A month after India's Independence in 1947, Former Governor-General of Pakistan, Muhammed Ali Jinnah refused to accept an invitation that used India instead of Hindustan to refer to the country. The invitation was from Louis Mountbatten, who invited him to be the honorary president of an art exhibition.
“It is a pity that for some mysterious reason Hindustan have adopted the word ‘India’ which is certainly misleading and is intended to create confusion,” Jinnah had then written to Mountbatten.
The tweet further claimed that Indian right wing has detested name ‘India’
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First direct US-Venezuela commercial flight in 7 years to land in Caracas
Caracas (Venezuela) (AP): The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela is scheduled to land on Thursday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, seven years after the US Department of Homeland Security ordered an indefinite suspension, citing security concerns.
The resumption of a commercial flight between the two countries comes in the wake of the US capture of Nicolás Maduro in a stunning nighttime raid on his residence in Caracas, Venezuela's capital, in early January.
It also comes a month after the US formally reopened its embassy in Caracas following the restoration of full diplomatic relations with the South American country.
Flight AA3599 operated by Envoy Air, a subsidiary of American Airlines, was scheduled to depart from Miami at 10:16 a.m. local time and arrive three hours later in the Venezuelan capital, returning to Florida later in the afternoon.
Earlier, the airline said a second daily flight between Miami and Caracas will start on May 21.
In late January, US President Donald Trump said he informed Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez that he would open up all commercial airspace over Venezuela, allowing Americans to visit.
“American citizens will be very shortly able to go to Venezuela, and they'll be safe there,” Trump said at the time.
The flights mark the resumption of nonstop travel between the US and Venezuela for the first time since diplomatic ties were severed in 2019. For the past seven years, passengers have relied on international airlines and indirect routes through neighbouring Latin American countries.
In January, when the airline announced the resumption of flights it said it would give customers the opportunity to reunite with families and pursue new business opportunities.
American Airlines was the last US airline flying to Venezuela. It suspended flights in 2019 between Miami and Caracas, as well as flights to the oil hub city of Maracaibo. Delta and United Airlines pulled out in 2017 amid a political crisis that forced millions to flee the country.
