ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has chosen to suspend its flight tasks to and from Afghanistan for an "unknown period".
The suspension came as the Taliban government requested the aircraft to reduce ticket costs to levels seen before the fall of the Western-moved Afghan government in August.
Affirming the turn of events, a PIA representative said that the flight tasks were suspended due to the "unseemly conduct" of the Afghan authorities.
"Somewhat late change in choice by the Afghan specialists and horrible conditions for unfamiliar carriers in Kabul were additionally key explanations for the choice," said the representative.
PIA's airplanes won't travel to Kabul without protection, he added.
Prior, the Taliban cautioned PIA and Afghan transporter Kam Air that their Afghan activities gambled being impeded except if they consented to reduce ticket costs, which have arrived at levels progressively unattainable for most Afghans.
With most global carriers done traveling to Afghanistan, tickets for trips to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, have been selling for as much as $2,500 on PIA, as per travel planners in Kabul, contrasted and $120-$150 previously.
The Afghan vehicle service said in an assertion costs on the course ought to "be acclimated to relate with the states of a ticket before the triumph of the Islamic Emirate" or the flights would be halted.
It asked travelers and others to report any infringement.
Trips among Afghanistan and Pakistan have been seriously restricted since Kabul air terminal was resumed last month in the wake of the tumultuous departure of in excess of 100,000 Westerners and weak Afghans following the Taliban triumph.
PIA said that since the time the new Taliban government was framed, its staff in Kabul had confronted last-minute changes in guidelines and flight consents and "profoundly scaring conduct" from Taliban authorities.