Terror Alert: Flights Suspended in Pakistan
Sky News report
10:50am UK, Thursday September 25, 2008
All flights in Pakistan have been suspended after a string of bomb warnings at airports across the country.
The country's civil aviation authority is said to have instituted a state of emergency.
Benazir Bhutto International Airport has been evacuated after a phone call saying the building would be blown up.
Sky's Asia correspondent Alex Crawford said there had been at least two separate threats, and the country was in a state of "high anxiety".
She said the first threat came in a call to Pakistan International Airline's call centre.
The second threat was made to the media warning of attacks at airports across the country.
There is a high degree of nervousness here. They are treating it as an emergency and restricting all movements in and out of the airport. The UN is meeting and meant to be deciding whether to remove its staff from the country. Many foreigners and ex-pats feel confined to their homes.
Sky News Asia correspondent Alex Crawford
Earlier, the group claiming responsibility for a bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in the capital warned of more attacks.
Saturday's truck bombing left 53 people dead and more than 260 wounded.
Security has deteriorated alarmingly in recent months with the government attacking al Qaeda and Taliban strongholds in the north-west.
The militants have retaliated with a string of bomb attacks.
In the latest bloodshed, Pakistani security forces killed 25 Islamists in Bajaur's Tang Khata area, on the Afghan border.
The Frontier Corps paramilitary force said it had "routed" the fighters, and wounded many more. It gave no information about casualties on the government side.
Relations have soured between the US and Pakistan over the conflict.
Pakistan is under intense pressure to eliminate militant camps in lawless Pashtun regions.
The US has stepped up its attacks on Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in the country. But Pakistan says it is a violation of its sovereignty.
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Bomb alert at Islamabad airport
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7635055.stm
Police are taking the threat seriously
The Pakistani authorities have stepped up security at the international airport in the capital, Islamabad.
The move follows intelligence reports suggesting that a suicide bomber was about to target the airport.
Flights are continuing as normal, although some airport complexes were closed for a time.
The mood in Islamabad has been jittery all week after Saturday's huge bombing which devastated the Marriott Hotel in the city, killing more than 50 people.
I also seem to remember that the US gave Pakistan 'millions' for fighting terror on there own soil.
Maybe the US feels like it got bad value for money so is chasing a few Taliban down by itself.
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I think they did.
Interesting that the report states that "Relations have soured between the US and Pakistan over the conflict".
They are unhappy with US for violating their sovereignty by stepping up attacks on Taliban and al Qaeda fighters.
I should have thought they may need all the help they can get right now. Although I suppose, in fairness, it's up to them who they allow to fight on their soil.
All worrying news, whatever .... :(
I heard British Airways cancelled all flights to Pakistan a few days ago.
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He probably flew to Kabul instead!
He may not have got home to Islamabad had his flight been from Doha today.