{"id":72648,"date":"2025-05-01T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=72648"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:32:58","slug":"govt-closes-airspace-between-karachi-lahore-amid-escalating-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-closes-airspace-between-karachi-lahore-amid-escalating-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt closes airspace between Karachi-Lahore amid escalating tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Due to the ongoing tensions between Pakistan and India, Pakistan has partially restricted certain areas of its airspace over Karachi and Lahore for a month in response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/indian-media-raises-serious-questions-on-pahalgam-false-flag-attack\/\">Pahalgam false flag<\/a> event.<\/p>\n<p>According to a<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/featured\/pakistan-air-force-swift-response-foils-indian-air-exercise-near-iiojk\/\"> Notice to Airmen<\/a> (NOTAM) issued by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), specific areas of the Karachi and Lahore Flight Information Regions (FIRs) would remain closed every day from 4 to 8 a.m., effective from \u00a0May 1 to May 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial flights will use alternate routes during the limited hours, even though the airspace between Karachi and Lahore is closed.<\/p>\n<p>This development comes after a brief three-hour airspace closure momentarily halted flight operations on PIA&#8217;s Gilgit-Skardu route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Due to the ongoing tensions between Pakistan and India, Pakistan has partially restricted certain areas of its airspace over Karachi and Lahore for a month in response to the Pahalgam false flag event. According to a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) issued by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), specific areas of the Karachi and Lahore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":31337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[373,28323],"class_list":["post-72648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-caa","tag-karachi-lahore-airspace-closed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72649,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72648\/revisions\/72649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}