Pakistan has quickly suspended Kabul flight operations and isn’t evacuating anybody in the intervening time, in line with media studies.
The state-run Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was the only business airline that had been working flights to and from Kabul in the course of the previous few days to assist in the evacuation of diplomats and overseas nationals from Afghanistan after the Taliban seized energy within the war-torn nation final week.
PIA on Saturday “temporarily suspended Kabul flight operations owing to lack of facilities and heaps of garbage at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport tarmac”, Geo News reported on Saturday.
Quoting sources aware about the event, it mentioned there have been no immigration officers and safety checks on the Kabul airport. Sanitation employees had been additionally not performing their duties for the reason that Taliban took management of the nation.
The rubbish on the airport’s tarmac may trigger a tragic accident, feared the sources.
The safety of Kabul airport is with the US and so they had been concerned with army plane solely, the report quoted the sources as saying.
Radio Pakistan additionally reported that PIA has “temporarily” suspended its flight operation to Afghanistan as a consequence of unavailability of needed amenities at Kabul airport.
Quoting PIA spokesperson Abdullah Hafeez, the report mentioned the flight operation will stay closed for a few days.
“We have talked to Afghan Civil Aviation Authority for restoration of all required facilities at Kabul airport as soon as possible so that PIA could resume its flight operation,” Hafeez mentioned, including that PIA has to date evacuated 1,500 individuals, together with journalists, UN officers and Pakistani nationwide, in 5 flights.
The Taliban seized energy in Afghanistan on Sunday final, two weeks earlier than the US was set to finish its troop withdrawal after a two-decade warfare.
The insurgents stormed throughout the nation, capturing all main cities in a matter of days, as Afghan safety forces educated and outfitted by the US and its allies melted away.
