Karachi airport cleared, flights to resume at 4:00 PM

RAWALPINDI: DG ISPR Major General Asim Bajwa said on Monday that the final clearance of the entire airport has completed and the flight operation will resume at 4:00 PM.

In a message on a social networking website, the military spokesman added that the airport has been handed over to CAA/ASF and would likely re-open at 2:00 PM.

The prime minister’s adviser Shujaat Azeem said that the flights operations would resume at the Karachi airport from 4:00 PM.

Heavily armed militants launched an assault on Pakistan´s busiest airport in Karachi, leaving at least 30 dead including 10 militants in a six-hour siege that the army quelled at dawn on Monday.

Explosions and gunfire rang out as the attackers, equipped with suicide vests, grenades and rocket launchers, battled security forces in one of the most brazen attacks in years in Pakistan´s biggest city.

Authorities said all 10 militants were killed and that the bodies of 18 victims, including security personnel and four airport workers, had been identified at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).

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