{"id":48637,"date":"2018-12-18T17:28:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48637"},"modified":"2018-12-18T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:29:08","slug":"british-airways-to-resume-flights-to-pakistan-after-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/british-airways-to-resume-flights-to-pakistan-after-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways to resume flights to Pakistan after 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5581\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/British-Air.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"479\" \/>British Airways will resume flights to Pakistan from June 2019 after a period of 10 years, the airline announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Direct flights from London Heathrow to Islamabad&#8217;s new airport to start in June,&#8221; said British High Commissioner Thomas Drew in a video on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A further boost to links between the UK and Pakistan, especially on trade and investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first flight will touch down in Islamabad, said a British Airways official at a press conference alongside the Pakistan Prime Minister&#8217;s Special Assistant on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Zulfi Bukhari.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">British Airways halted its operations to Pakistan 10 years ago, said Bukhari, terming the announcement &#8220;groundbreaking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In September 2008, British Airways suspended all its flights to Pakistan because of security fears after a blast outside the Marriott Hotel that claimed more than 40 lives.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/british-airways-to-resume-flights-to-pakistan-after-10-years\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways will resume flights to Pakistan from June 2019 after a period of 10 years, the airline announced on Tuesday. &#8220;Direct flights from London Heathrow to Islamabad&#8217;s new airport to start in June,&#8221; said British High Commissioner Thomas Drew in a video on Twitter. &#8220;A further boost to links between the UK and Pakistan, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48639,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48637\/revisions\/48639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}