Domestic flights from Kabul airport to resume from today: Reports

Domestic flights from Kabul International Airport will resume on Friday, according to media reports, citing sources from the country's flag airline.
"We have obtained approval from the Taliban and aviation authorities and aim to begin flights today," Tamim Ahmadi, a senior manager with Ariana Afghan Airlines, was cited by the news agency as saying. However, other media agencies reported on Thursday that foreign flights might take longer to resume. Since the final evacuation flight took off on September 1, the Kabul airport has been shuttered.

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On Wednesday, a team of Qatari and Turkish experts travelled to Kabul to help restore operations at the facility, which the UN says is critical to supplying humanitarian aid to the country.

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al, on the other hand, stated that they are hopeful and will be able to operate it as soon as feasible. He went on to say that they are still in the review process and are working very hard, as well as communicating with the Taliban, to identify the gaps and dangers in reopening the airport.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu proposed that military planes, which might be utilised to evacuate more people, could restart first.

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This comes after the Taliban accused the US of deliberately causing damage to infrastructure at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport during their exit from Afghanistan.
According to local sources, Anas Haqqani, a prominent Taliban member, visited Kabul airport a day after the final American soldier departed Afghanistan and said that the US purposefully wrecked military assets such as helicopters, military vehicles, and buildings.

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