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CAA hopes foreign airlines will resume Peshawar flights
[DAWN] Though another foreign airline diverted its Beautiful Downtown Peshawar...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. -bound scheduled flight to Islamabad on Saturday, the Civil Aviation Authority is confident major foreign airlines will resume flights for the quiet provincial capital next week. CAA manager (public relations) Abid Kaimkhani told Dawn that foreign airlines, which had temporarily stopped flights for Peshawar, would decide about resumption of flights shortly. "They (foreign airliners) will make a decision on July 1 and we're waiting for it. We hope they'll resume flights for Peshawar very soon," he said. Kaimkhani said a few airlines had diverted flights from Peshawar to Islamabad after attack on a commercial flight in Peshawar lately and security had been improved at vulnerable points at and around the city's Bacha Khan International Airport since then. Three world-class airlines, including Emirates, Qatar Airways and Ittehad, have suspended flights for Peshawar in the wake of a gun attack on Pakistain International Airlines' Airbus A-310 during landing at the Peshawar airport on Tuesday night. The flight with 196 passengers and 10 crew members on board was coming from Riyadh (Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ) when it was fired upon on the city's outskirts, leaving one woman passenger dead and two stewards injured. Posted by: Fred 2014-06-30 |
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