Inkulumbuso yasePakistan, Imran Khan, uxelile ukusilela ukubuyela kwilizwe lakhe emva kokuba inqwelomoya ebimthwele kunye neqela lakhe lingasebenzi kakuhle iiyure kuhambo lokubuya e-US, kwaye wanyanzelwa ukuba afike eNew York.
Abasebenzi bafumanise ingxaki yezobuchwephetsha kwijethi, kwiiyure ezine emva kokuba bemkile eNew York baya ePakistan ngolwesiHlanu ebusuku, ingxelo yemithombo yeendaba yasePakistan ixele. Ngokwe-Samaa TV, yayiyinto encinci kwi-elektroniki yendiza.
Iinkcukacha zokungasebenzi kakuhle azicacanga kodwa ngokucacileyo yayinzulu, kuba inqwelomoya yanyanzelwa ukuba ijike kufutshane neToronto, Canada. Emva koko yafika eNew York Isikhululo senqwelomoya saseJohn F. Kennedy.
UKhan wayesendleleni ebuyela ePakistan emva kokugqiba utyelelo olwathatha iveki eMelika, apho wathi kwiNdibano yeZizwe eziManyeneyo (UNGA) ukuba "ukuphalazwa kwegazi" bekusenzeka kwingingqi yaseKashmir. Uye wachaza nokuba izixhobo zenyukliya zingasetyenziselwa ukulwa ne-India ukuba kungakho imfazwe.
Kuba i-glitch ayinakulungiswa kwangoko, uKhan uchithe ubusuku obongezelelweyo ehotele. Kulindeleke ukuba abhukishe indawo yokubalekela ekhaya ukuba ingxaki ngejethi ayisombululekanga ngoMgqibelo.
Inqwelomoya enesiphene kubonakala ukuba yeyenkosana yaseSaudi Arabia, uMohammed bin Salman, owayiboleka uKhan emva kokuba inkulumbuso yasePakistan ifike eRiyadh ngenqwelomoya ngenqwelomoya kutyelelo lwangaphambi kweUNGA.
INTO ONOKUYITHATHA KWELI NQAKU:
- Khan was on his way back to Pakistan after concluding a week-long visit to the US, where he claimed at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) that a “bloodbath” was brewing in the disputed region of Kashmir.
- The faulty plane apparently belongs to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who lent it to Khan after the Pakistani PM arrived in Riyadh on a commercial flight for a pre-UNGA visit.
- The crew discovered a technical problem on board the jet, four hours after it left New York for Pakistan on Friday night, Pakistani media reported.
