{"id":6352,"date":"2021-09-26T17:51:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T17:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=6352"},"modified":"2021-09-26T17:51:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T17:51:34","slug":"pakistan-allows-kam-air-to-operate-on-kabul-islamabad-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/09\/pakistan-allows-kam-air-to-operate-on-kabul-islamabad-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan allows Kam Air to operate on Kabul \u2013 Islamabad route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 Pakistan has allowed an Afghan airline to operate its flights from Islamabad to Kabul, a Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) official said on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kam Air \u2013 Afghanistan&#8217;s largest private airline \u2013 will operate three flights a week, becoming the first Afghan airline to operate outside Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, Irfan Sabir, director of CAA Air Transport, told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The permission, he said, has been granted on the request of Kam Air, which, until now, is the only Afghan airline to apply for the flight permit.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, he said, that the airline might only operate chartered flights from Islamabad to Kabul due to limited passengers. In the coming days, he added, it might start commercial flights.<\/p>\n<p>Flight operations in Afghanistan came to a halt after the Taliban takeover of Kabul on Aug. 15. The domestic flights were resumed on Sept. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2003, according to the airline&#8217;s official website, it has seven aircraft and a workforce of over 1,200 people.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from within Afghanistan, the airline would operate to and from several international destinations, including Central Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East, before the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s state-run Pakistan International Airlines was the first airline to operate the first international flight to Afghanistan on Sept. 13, after the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 Pakistan has allowed an Afghan airline to operate its flights from Islamabad to Kabul, a Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[667,12,177],"class_list":["post-6352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-kam-air","tag-afghanistan","tag-pakistan"],"views":648,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}