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PIA to suspend Kabul flights following Taliban interference
Pakistan International Airlines is pulling out of Afghanistan following interference from the Taliban
Pakistan International Airlines has announced that it will immediately suspend flights to and from Afghanistan following allegedly “unworkable conditions” imposed by the Taliban.
The airline says that operational conditions had only continued to get worse since the Taliban took control of the country.
PIA says its staff have been treated with a “heavy hand” and commanders have been “changing regulations and flight permissions at the last moment or deciding at a whim rather than meeting international regulations.”
PIA has also accused Afghanistan’s aviation ministry of slashing half the number of passengers from one flight, resulting in nearly half a million dollar loss for the airline.
The airline resumed several charter flights in and out of Kabul on September 13… with a spokesperson saying that decision “was taken on purely humanitarian grounds, and on the strong insistence of friendly organisations.”