{"id":442833,"date":"2021-10-16T10:09:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T04:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442833"},"modified":"2021-10-16T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T06:01:01","slug":"pakistan-airline-suspends-flights-from-kabul-citing-talibans-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-airline-suspends-flights-from-kabul-citing-talibans-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan airline suspends flights from Kabul citing Taliban&#8217;s interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Thursday announced the suspension of flights from Kabul, accusing the Taliban of \u201cheavy-handed\u201d interference, according to news agencies. The Taliban government had ordered Pakistan\u2019s national flag carrier to cut prices to the levels when it was operating during the Western-backed Afghan government. PIA accused the Sunni Pashtun group, which announced an interim government last month, of arbitrary rule changes and intimidation of staff. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are suspending our flight operations to Kabul from today because of the heavy-handedness of the authorities,&#8221; news agency Reuters quoted PIA spokesperson as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that Taliban officials used derogatory language towards the airline staff and also manhandled a staff member. PIA spokesperson has said the flights to and from Kabul will remain suspended until \u201cthe situation becomes conducive\u201d, reported AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Thursday announced the suspension of flights from Kabul, accusing the Taliban of \u201cheavy-handed\u201d interference, according to news agencies. The Taliban government had ordered Pakistan\u2019s national flag carrier to cut prices to the levels when it was operating during the Western-backed Afghan government. PIA accused the Sunni Pashtun group, which announced an interim government last month, of arbitrary rule changes and intimidation of staff. &#8220;We are suspending our flight operations to Kabul from today because of the heavy-handedness of the authorities,&#8221; news agency Reuters quoted PIA spokesperson as saying. Reports suggest that Taliban officials used derogatory [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442833","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=442833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}