Passengers stranded at Karachi airport as India-Pakistan fighting grounds flights

Record ID: 2001121

  • Title: Passengers stranded at Karachi airport as India-Pakistan fighting grounds flights
  • Date: 7th May 2025
  • Summary: KARACHI, PAKISTAN (MAY 7, 2025) (REUTERS) JINNAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT EXTERIOR WITH FEW VEHICLES PARKED FRONT OF JINNAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AIRPORT ELECTRONIC BOARD SHOWING ALL DEPARTURE FLIGHTS CANCELLED PASSENGERS WAITING SIGN READING (English/Urdu) "INTERNATIONAL DEPARTURES" VARIOUS OF AEROBRIDGES AT EMPTY AIRPORT GATES PEOPLE SITTING ON SIDEWALK AT AIRPORT, SEEN FRO
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  • Keywords: India Karachi Pakistan affected airlines airport diversion passenger
  • Location: KARACHI, PAKISTAN
  • City: KARACHI, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA001207707052025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Passengers at Karachi's main Jinnah International Airport were stranded outside the departure terminal on Wednesday (May 7), as airlines cancelled flights out of the country amid the worst fighting with India in decades.
    "My problem is that I came to the airport and all flights cancelled, its really bad and I don’t know what will be after," said an affected passenger from Russia Sergei Zikov. People were seen sitting with their luggage on sidewalks outside the airport.
    India attacked Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday and Pakistan said it had shot down five Indian fighter jets in the worst fighting in more than two decades between the nuclear-armed enemies. India said it struck nine Pakistani "terrorist infrastructure" sites, some of them linked to an attack by Islamist militants on Hindu tourists that killed 26 people in Indian Kashmir last month.
    Islamabad said six Pakistani locations were targeted, and that none of them were militant camps. At least 26 civilians were killed and 46 injured, a Pakistan military spokesperson said.
    (Production: Waseem Sattar, Arooba Charakla, Feline Lim)
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