{"id":435905,"date":"2021-09-14T10:46:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T05:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=435905"},"modified":"2021-09-14T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T08:01:16","slug":"first-foreign-commercial-flight-since-taliban-takeover-lands-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/first-foreign-commercial-flight-since-taliban-takeover-lands-in-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"First foreign commercial flight since Taliban takeover lands in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international commercial flight touched down in the Afghan capital on Monday, the first since the Taliban retook power last month.<\/p>\n<p>Kabul airport was left trashed after foreign forces completed their chaotic withdrawal on August 30, evacuating more than 120,000 people from the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have since been scrambling to get it operating again with technical assistance from Qatar and other nations. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was hardly anyone on the plane, around 10 people&#8230; maybe more staff than passengers,&#8221; said an AFP journalist aboard the Pakistan International Airways (PIA) flight from Islamabad. <\/p>\n<p>The resumption of commercial flights will be a key test for the hardline Islamist group, who have repeatedly promised to allow Afghans with the right documents to leave the country freely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international commercial flight touched down in the Afghan capital on Monday, the first since the Taliban retook power last month. Kabul airport was left trashed after foreign forces completed their chaotic withdrawal on August 30, evacuating more than 120,000 people from the country. The Taliban have since been scrambling to get it operating again with technical assistance from Qatar and other nations. &#8220;There was hardly anyone on the plane, around 10 people&#8230; maybe more staff than passengers,&#8221; said an AFP journalist aboard the Pakistan International Airways (PIA) flight from Islamabad. The resumption of commercial flights will be a key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}