LAHORE  - FIA Immigration authorities on Monday arrested a passenger trying to board a Copenhagen bound flight on fake travel document, said spokesman of Immigration here. He said that passenger Rizwan Ali son of Muhammad Asghar, resident of Gujrat reached Allama Iqbal International Airport to ...

MIAMI: Part of a busy concourse was evacuated at Miami International Airport late on Thursday when a passenger tried to pass through a security checkpoint with a cigarette lighter shaped like a grenade, police and airport officials said. Security screeners saw the item shortly after 5 am and called ...

GENEVA (PR) – Qatar Airways has once again been honoured with accolades at the annual Skytrax 2013 World Airport Awards by retaining awards in two key categories at a ceremony held in Geneva. For the third consecutive year, Qatar Airways’ Premium Terminal at Doha International Airport ...

RAWALPINDI - Defence Secretary and Chairman Civil Avocation Authority (CAA) Board of Directors (BoD) Lt General (Retd) Asif Yasin Malik on Monday visited the new Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Fateh Jang, and reviewed the work in process there.Asif Yasin was flanked by Air Marshal (retd) ...

PESHAWAR - At least four rockets, fired from an unknown location in the direction of Peshawar’s Bacha Khan international airport, landed on Canal Road on Monday, close to the runway of the provincial capital’s main air strip.One of the four rockets landed into a canal close to the house ...

A rocket attack occurred close to the Kandahar airport while a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight 199 traveling from Kandahar to Quetta was present on the runway.According to Aviation officials, the rockets fell outside the premises of the Kandahar airport.Meanwhile PIA officials ...

LAHORE – After terrorist attack at Bacha Khan International Airport, Allama Iqbal International Airport (AIIAP) was put on alert on Saturday night.An official of ASF said though there was no any threat to AIIAP but even then they have taken precautionary measures to meet any untoward ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Mirpur will be air linked with rest of the world in the near future as a result of the construction of an international airport in the ancestral city of millions of Kashmiri expatriates soon.This was disclosed by AJK Prime Minister Ch Abdul Majeed while addressing a news conference ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Mirpur will be air linked with rest of the world in the near future as a result of the construction of an international airport in the ancestral city of millions of Kashmiri expatriates soon.This was disclosed by AJK Prime Minister Ch Abdul Majeed while addressing a news conference ...

KARACHI - The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has asked the airport managers in the country to beef up security.A directive to this effect has been issued by Hamid Gardezi, principal director Airport Services.A CAA spokesman said here on Friday that the PDAPS had advised all the airport managers of ...

LAHORE – The Ministry of Interior is going to install Integrated Border Management System at Allama Iqbla International Airport which would be helpful in keeping record of travellers and tracking down criminals, sources in the FIA’s Immigration Department said on Monday. They said that ...

MANILA A Philippine official denied claims by Hollywood star Taylor Kitsch that he got rough treatment from a customs official in the country, saying the actor was apparently actually in Indonesia at the time. Bureau of Customs commissioner Ruffy Biazon said he investigated claims an airport ...

RAWALPINDI - Illegal constructions on state land at Airport Road has posed security risk, residents say. Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) had purchased land by paying heavy compensation to the owners of shops and houses some time back for expansion of airport road and road was extended. But a ...

Just cleared airport security and in need of a little deep breathing and stretching relaxation?San Francisco Airport has opened what it calls a first of its kind yoga room, and while it’s not quite a mountaintop in Tibet, airport officials say the low lights, and soothing blue walls aim to ...

FRANKFURT  - Frankfurt Airport, Europe’s third busiest, said Friday it handled a record number of passengers last year thanks to the opening of a long-awaited fourth runway. Fraport, the airport’s operator, said in a statement that a record 56.44 million passengers passed through ...

KARACHI- CAA Pakistan has deferred the implementation for enhancement of airport charges to January 16, 2012 instead of January 01, 2012, hence, the new charges will not apply on passengers travelling prior to January 16, 2012. However, tickets issued now/before January 16, 2012 with travel after ...

LAHORE - The Civil Aviation Authority, on Thursday, conducted a full-scale mock emergency exercise at the Allama Iqbal International Airport here. To make it beyond an exercise, the CAA arranged and extinguished a large-scale fire at the tarmac. Thereafter, the ‘injured’ passengers were ...

ISLAMABAD (INP) The Airport Security Force (ASF) recovered a huge quantity of heroin from the baggage of a passenger during search here at Benazir International Airport on Thursday. According to the ASF sources, during the search of a passengers baggage, leaving for South Africa via Dubai, through ...

BANGKOK (AFP) - Thai authorities have found nearly 400 protected tortoises in unclaimed bags at an airport in Bangkok, an official confirmed on Saturday. The Indian and Burmese Star tortoises had been in luggage for about 10 days by the time they were found late Friday at Suvarnabhumi airport, said ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) Indian Ambassador Meera Shankar was removed and patted down by an American security agent at airport in Mississippi, despite being informed about her diplomatic status, prompting the New Delhis mission in Washington to strongly protest against the incident. The incident took place ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Sikh Americans are protesting at what they say is a new policy at US airports to screen their turbans systematically, voicing fear the move would further stigmatise their faith. US officials have not confirmed a change in policy and insisted they respected religious beliefs. But ...

LAHORE - Customs officials deputed at Allama Iqbal International Airport of the export section are stated to have first detained but shortly afterwards released a consignment of bed sheets inscribed with 'made-in-Israel due to the reasons best known to them, said sources in Customs Department on ...

PARIS (AFP) - An air traffic control strike disrupted journeys from airports across France on Wednesday with one in five flights cancelled from Pariss main international airport Charles de Gaulle. Queues formed as half of all flights were also cancelled from Pariss second biggest airport, Orly, ...

LAHORE - Vice Chancellor of Punjab University Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran was humiliated by US Customs officials at the Logan International Airport where he had gone recently to attend the conference on distance learning at the MIT on US visa B1/B2 after he was given security clearance. Dr Mujahid ...

LAHORE - Chairman MCB and Nishat Group and member Civil Aviation Authority Board Mian Muhammad Mansha has inaugurated a state-of-the-art integrated Management System Resources Centre of Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority at Allama Iqbal Int'l Airport, Lahore. The facility consists of Auditorium, ...

LAHORE - Peoples Unity activists at Allama Iqbal International Airport tortured a Management Information System (MIS) Officer on Wednesday, alleging that he first slapped their president during an exchange of harsh words over a petty issue, sources at the airport said. They claimed that the tussle ...

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the star of The Tudors, has been arrested after allegedly attacking a number of staff at a Paris Airport and then threatening to kill them. The 31-year-old, who plays King Henry VIII in the BBC series, was allegedly drunk when he launched the assault in front of astonished ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US rapper Coolio was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday for drug possession, officials said. The 45-year-old Grammy-Award winner, best known for his 1995 hit "Gangsta's Paradise," was taken into custody at around 10:30am (1830 GMT) and later transferred to a ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - A group of world-class pole vaulters took a chunk out of a Sydney airport ceiling in an embarrassing mishap while lumping their unwieldy equipment through the terminal, reports said Monday. The vaulters -- Australian pair Paul Burgess and Beijing Olympic champion Steve Hooker and ...

Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), like other segments of the society, also seems severely rocked by the break up of the ruling political alliance, as the KSE-100 index down by 384 points and pegged at 9431. The market today opened in an extremely pensive environment, as the KSE like others in the ...