ISLAMABAD, April 22 (Xinhua) -- A bomb threat on a domestic flight triggered an emergency at an airport in Pakistan's northwest provincial capital of Peshawar on Monday, local media reported.
According to the reports, captain of the flight PK 350 belonging to Pakistan International Airlines, which came from southern port city Karachi, informed the control tower at the Bacha Khan International Airport in Peshawar about the threat.
Following the information, an emergency was imposed at the airport and the airplane was parked away from the runway after its landing at 11:49 a.m. local time.
Security forces managed quick and safe evacuation of all the passengers and launched a search operation in the plane.
The captain of the plane reportedly received the threat about a bomb in the cargo section of the plane after taking off from the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi.
The civil aviation authority of Pakistan has cancelled all the flights at the airport until further notice. The nature and source of the bomb threat are not known yet.
