KARACHI: Evacuation of Pakistanis from Kuwait completed
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, March 21: The Pakistan International Airlines on Thursday flown an extra section from Karachi to airlift Pakistanis from Kuwait.
The PIA flight which left today at 3pm from Karachi evacuated 220 passengers and landed at Lahore at midnight.
With this flight the evacuation of Pakistanis, who were awaiting being airlifted from Kuwait in the wake of invasion of Iraq by the US army, got completed, a PIA spokesman told Dawn.
In addition to this extra section, he said, a scheduled flight, PK-206, also landed at Lahore with 467 passengers on board from Kuwait.
According to the PIA schedule, the airline is flying four flights-a-week for Kuwait, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday from Lahore, and on Wednesday from Karachi, and is following its normal schedule with the exception of flight timings, which have been changed from night to the morning for security reasons, the spokesman pointed out.
A Civil Aviation Authority spokesman told Dawn on Thursday that so far no airline had notified any changes in its normal flight schedule, including, Oman Airline, Saudia, Emirates and Gulf Airways, he added.
