Pak airspace partially open amid India crisis

Commercial travel partially resumes at airport in Pakistan’s Lahore, as tensions with India remain high in disputed Kashmir region. Pakistan has continued a limited opening of its airspace for commercial flights, after closing it earlier this week at the height of tensions with neighbouring India that saw both countries carry out air raids inside each other’s territories for the first time since the 1971 war. Pakistan’s civil aviation authority said yesterdya it was allowing restricted operations at the Allama Iqbal international airport in the eastern city of Lahore.

This comes after partial operations at Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar and the capital, Islamabad, resumed on Friday. Other airports in Gilgit Baltistan, Punjab province and the interior Sindh region remained closed on Sunday.

Pak airspace partially open amid India crisis

Commercial travel partially resumes at airport in Pakistans Lahore, as tensions with India remain high in disputed Kashmir region. Pakistan has continued a limited opening of its airspace for commercial flights, after closing it earlier this week at the height of tensions with neighbouring India that saw both countries carry out air raids inside each others territories for the first time since the 1971 war. Pakistans civil aviation authority said yesterdya it was allowing restricted operationsat the Allama Iqbal international airport in the eastern city of Lahore. This comes after partial operations at Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar and the capital, Islamabad, resumed on Friday. Other airports in Gilgit Baltistan, Punjab province and the interior Sindh region remained closed on Sunday.