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Pakistan state airline PIA lands first flight in Kabul since evacuation ended: spokesperson

Pakistan state airline PIA lands first flight in Kabul since evacuation ended: spokesperson
This is the first flight PIA has landed in Kabul since the foreign troop withdrawal and mass-evacuation effort ended around two weeks ago.
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13 September, 2021
This is the first PIA flight to Kabul since mass evacuations ended [KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty]

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) commercial flight from Ìýhas touched down in , the capital of , on Monday, a spokesman for the airline said.

The flight of the airline will carry people from Kabul to Islamabad holding valid travel documents - though it was not immediately clear if it was classified as a regular or a special commercial charter.

This is the first PIA flight to touch down in Kabul after the end of the foreign troop withdrawal and large-scale evacuation of people from Afghanistan following US President Joe Biden's 31 August deadline.

It was previously reported on Saturday thatÌý.

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"We have got all technical clearances for flight operations," spokesman Abdullah Hafeez Khan toldÌýAFP.

"Our first commercial plane... is scheduled to fly from Islamabad to Kabul on September 13."

Khan said the service would depend on demand.

"We have received 73 requests which is very encouraging... from humanitarian relief agencies and journalists," he said.

(Reuters, AFP)

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