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Pakistan jet attack: Airlines halt flights to Peshawar | Pakistan jet attack: Airlines halt flights to Peshawar |
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Qatar Airways has joined Emirates and Etihad in stopping its jets flying to the Pakistani city of Peshawar after a deadly attack on an airliner. | Qatar Airways has joined Emirates and Etihad in stopping its jets flying to the Pakistani city of Peshawar after a deadly attack on an airliner. |
The Pakistan International Airlines flight was fired on as it landed on Tuesday, killing a passenger on board. | The Pakistan International Airlines flight was fired on as it landed on Tuesday, killing a passenger on board. |
Police have arrested scores of people but say they do not have full control of areas around the airport where the shots are thought to have originated. | Police have arrested scores of people but say they do not have full control of areas around the airport where the shots are thought to have originated. |
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific says it is suspending all flights to Pakistan. | Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific says it is suspending all flights to Pakistan. |
The move, which it said would come into effect by late June, follows a deadly attack on Karachi airport earlier this month. | The move, which it said would come into effect by late June, follows a deadly attack on Karachi airport earlier this month. |
The all-night siege at Karachi's international airport, the largest in Pakistan, left at least 39 people dead, 10 of them heavily armed gunmen. | The all-night siege at Karachi's international airport, the largest in Pakistan, left at least 39 people dead, 10 of them heavily armed gunmen. |
The Pakistani Taliban and an allied Uzbek militant group said they jointly carried out the Karachi attack. | |
There was no immediate claim for Tuesday night's machine-gun attack on the PIA jet in Peshawar. | |
The BBC's Andrew North in Islamabad says even for a country accustomed to violence, there has been astonishment in Pakistan at the attack. | |
The pilot said it could have been even worse, describing his desperate efforts to dodge a volley of rounds he saw flashing around the cockpit as he brought the plane in. | |
Qatar Airways and the two other Gulf-based airlines have said they hope to resume services soon. | |
But the cumulative damage to Pakistan's image is severe, our correspondent says. | |
It comes just days after the government barred an Emirates aircraft with an anti-government cleric on board from landing in Islamabad because of rioting outside the airport. |
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