KARACHI: The Karachi airport has been reopened for passengers and all flight operations, hours after militants equipped with suicide vests, grenades and rocket launchers attacked it.
In a statement the Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asim Bajwa said that the Karachi airport has been cleared and handed over to the airport security force and the civil aviation authority.
A spokesperson of the Pakistan Internatioanal Airlines (PIA) said that the special assistant to prime minister, shujaat Azeem, is overseeing the flight operation and has directed to provide all possible facilities to the passengers.
Earlier, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ordered the authorities to reopen the Karachi airport for public as soon as possible. He directed the Civil Aviation Authority to facilitate the passengers in every possible manner.
The PIA spokesperson told media that 15-20 flights disturbed due to the terrorist attack will be rescheduled by Monday evening.
