Richard Crowder (R), Deputy British High Commissioner to Pakistan, delivers a news conference along with Robert Williams (C), head of the sales for Asia Pacific and the Middle East for British Airways and Zulfi Bukhari, special assistant on overseas Pakistanis and human resource development, in Islamabad, Pakistan December 18, 2018. REUTERS/Drazen Jorgic
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - British Airways will resume flights to Pakistan next year after a 10-year absence that followed a major hotel bombing, becoming the first Western airline to restart flights to the South Asian nation.
BA halted flights following one of the most high-profile attacks in Pakistan's history, the 2008 Marriott Hotel bombing in the capital, Islamabad, which took place during a period of devastating Islamist militant violence that swept the country.
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