GWADAR (Dunya News) – Weeks after the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) resumed its flight operations after the four-year ban was lifted by the European regulators, a PIA flight landed here at the newly-built Gwadar International Airport, becoming the first flight to be received at the airport.

The official inauguration of the Gwadar International Airport, initially scheduled for August last year, was delayed multiple times due to security concerns in Balochistan.

The newly inaugurated Gwadar airport in Balochistan has been branded a "donation" by the Chinese Communist Party's mouthpiece, Global Times. This even as Pakistan hailed the USD 230-million airport as a "symbol of friendship".

The newly inaugurated Gwadar International Airport would not only benefit the economy of Balochistan but Pakistan’s overall economy, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday during a federal cabinet meeting, according to the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP).

There is no doubt that the airport, like the city’s deep-water port, “symbolises a new era of prosperity for Gwadar and the rest of Balochistan” as the aviation and defence minister said to mark the commencement of commercial flight operations from there.

Pakistan’s Gwadar International Airport, a key project under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), saw its first official flight on Monday when a PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) carrier landed at the China-built airport after the airport was inaugurated and rendered fully operational.

Pakistan's largest international airport, funded and built by all-weather ally China, in the restive Balochistan province was officially opened on Monday.

Pakistan’s new Gwadar International Airport welcomed its first commercial flight from Karachi, after months of delays due to security reviews. The $246-million project, funded by China under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC),

PM Shehbaz Sharif lauded the resumption of PIA flights to Europe, the opening of the Pak-Iran border crossing at Panjgur, and efforts to restore peace and economic stability across Pakistan.

The Gwadar airport, funded under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), was initiated in March 2019 during Imran Khan’s tenure and inaugurated in October 2024 by Shahbaz Sharif.

The curb on PIA was imposed in 2020 after 97 people died ... inaugurated by Chinese Premier Li Qiang in October. The airport, Pakistan’s largest, is located in restive southwestern Balochistan province and is part of a massive investment by Beijing ...

ISLAMABAD: Welcoming the launch of Gwadar International Airport's operations, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the newly inaugurated facility would prove to be beneficial for the