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Pakistan: Flight operations resume at Karachi airport

| | Jun 10, 2014, at 02:03 am
Karachi, June 9 (IBNS): Flight operations in the Jinnah International Airport here, which witnessed a major terrorist attack on Sunday leaving at least 28 people including 10 militants, dead, resumed on Monday.

"Flight operations resumed at the Karachi airport with the first flight departing for Islamabad," Geo News reported.

Flight operations were suspended in the airport after heavily armed militants launched an assault on Pakistan's busiest airport.

After battle between the militants and the security forces for several hours, the airport was finally cleared on Monday.

Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Asim Bajwa tweeted: "#Kci Update:Final Clearance of entire Airport completed.Airport handed over to CAA/ASF, likely to open at 1400hrs."

Terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has accepted the responsibility of the attack.

TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid told Geo News: "Pakistan used peace talks as a tool of war."

"We have yet to take revenge for the deaths of hundreds of innocent tribal women and children in Pakistani air strikes," he said.

Condemning the attack, Former Pakistan cricketer and   Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan called the attack as shocking.

"Khi airport terrorist attack shocking. Continuing security & intel lapses reflect a failure of the govt's National Counter Terrorism Policy," Khan tweeted.

 

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