WORLD First foreign commercial flight since Taliban takeover lands in Kabul: AFP

WORLD

First foreign commercial flight since Taliban takeover lands in Kabul: AFP

AFP

14:12, September 13, 2021

A Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying a handful of passengers touched down at Kabul airport Monday, the first international commercial flight to land since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan on August 15.

Pakistan International Airlines plane. (File photo: Agencies)

"There was hardly anyone on the plane, around 10 people... maybe more staff than passengers," said an AFP journalist aboard the flight from Islamabad.

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