{"id":4711,"date":"2021-10-15T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T18:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2021-10-15T18:31:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T18:31:59","slug":"pakistani-airline-suspends-afghanistan-flights-due-to-taliban-heavy-handedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2021\/10\/15\/pakistani-airline-suspends-afghanistan-flights-due-to-taliban-heavy-handedness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani airline suspends Afghanistan flights due to Taliban &#8216;heavy-handedness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/14\/asia\/pakistan-international-airlines-suspends-afghanistan-flights-intl\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/14\/asia\/pakistan-international-airlines-suspends-afghanistan-flights-intl\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> This article is about Pakistan announced Thursday that it was suspending\u00a0flights to Afghanistan\u00a0due to what it described as unworkable conditions imposed by the\u00a0Taliban. It all started when Afghanistan&#8217;s ministry slashed half the number of passengers from one flight this week that was already in the process of checking in. This resulted in 176 people, fleeing for their lives, being sent back home by the airline. A Pakistani international airline spokesman Abdullah Khan spoke about the situation saying it is &#8220;simply impossible to operate scheduled flights to Kabul, as it is still considered a war zone by aircraft insurance companies.&#8221; Taliban government ordered the airline, the only international carrier operating regularly out of the Afghan capital, to cut ticket prices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is important because with most airlines no longer flying to Afghanistan, tickets for flights to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, have been selling for as much as $2,500. This is up significantly compared with $120-$150 it was before this year. The lasting impact is there now even a tinier window for Afghanistan trying to leave the country. With the border being closed, now the airport closed as well, it is like the people of Afghanistan are trapped in a tiny cage. I think that this might be happening with flights between Afghanistan and Pakistan being so limited in Kabul airport because when it reopened last month in the wake of the chaotic evacuation of more than 100,000 Westerners and vulnerable Afghans following the Taliban control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This relates to what we talked about in class with Afghanistan and Pakistan having a odd relationship with each other.  Something else we talked about in class is that countries have\u00a0incentives for countries to work together. Pakistan helped Afghanistan fight the Taliban because the Taliban is hiding in parts of Pakistan. Since the US left Afghanistan and Kabul relations have faltered more downhill than it was before and this most recent event of suspending flight doesn&#8217;t help there case at all.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/14\/asia\/pakistan-international-airlines-suspends-afghanistan-flights-intl\/index.html This article is about Pakistan announced Thursday that it was suspending\u00a0flights to Afghanistan\u00a0due to what it described as unworkable conditions imposed by the\u00a0Taliban. It all started when Afghanistan&#8217;s ministry slashed half the number of passengers from one flight this week that was already in the process of checking in. This resulted in 176 people, fleeing for their lives, being&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2021\/10\/15\/pakistani-airline-suspends-afghanistan-flights-due-to-taliban-heavy-handedness\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4714,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}