{"id":323510,"date":"2026-01-30T12:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323510"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:36:40","slug":"bangladesh-pakistan-direct-flights-resumed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323510","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh-Pakistan Direct Flights Resumed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DHAKA, Jan 30 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; Bangladesh&#8217;s national flag carrier, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, has resumed direct flights from the capital, Dhaka, to Pakistan&#8217;s Karachi, after a hiatus of more than 14 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inaugural flight from Dhaka, BG-341, departed for Karachi from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 8.00 p.m. local time yesterday, carrying some 138 passengers on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheikh Bashir Uddin, adviser to Bangladesh&#8217;s Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, and Imran Haider, high commissioner of Pakistan to Bangladesh, jointly cut the ribbon to mark the launch, at a ceremony at the airport, attended by other dignitaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The national flag carrier said, the Dhaka-Karachi flight will operate every Thursday and Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resumption of direct flights is expected to ease travel and facilitate trade between the two South Asian countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The direct flights come amid improving bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Pakistan.&#8211; NNN-BSS &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, Jan 30 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; Bangladesh&#8217;s national flag carrier, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, has resumed direct flights from the capital, Dhaka, to Pakistan&#8217;s Karachi, after a hiatus of more than 14 years. The inaugural flight from Dhaka, BG-341, departed for Karachi from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 8.00 p.m. local time yesterday, carrying some 138 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":323514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323510"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323513,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323510\/revisions\/323513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}