Karachi Airport Security Staff (ASF) staff during the scanning of luggage at Jinnah Terminal Karachi airport seized 45 Pakistani passports of unrelated people from accused Muhammad Adnan — a passenger who was going to Iran via Dubai on a private airline flight.
Karachi: Massive raid at Karachi International Airport. The passenger Muhammad Adnan, could not give any satisfactory answer regarding the presence of passports of unrelated people.
The passenger and the recovered passports were given in the custody of FIA immigration by the ASF.
The passenger Muhammad Adan, was illegally travelling with passports of different citizens to Iran via Dubai. Muhammad Adnan along with the recovered unrelated passports were shifted to FIA passport circle for further action.
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Jinnah International Airport formerly Drigh Road Airport or Karachi Civil Airport, is Pakistan‘s busiest international and domestic airport, and handled 7,267,582 passengers in 2017–2018. Located in Karachi, the largest city and commercial capital of Pakistan and capital of the province of Sindh, it is named after Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the statesman founder of Pakistan. It is one of the oldest airports in the world.
The airport is managed by the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), and serves as a hub for the national flag carrier, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), airblue, and many other private airlines. The airport is equipped with aircraft engineering and overhauling facilities including the Ispahani Hangar for wide-body aircraft.
History
Imperial Airways was one of the first airlines to fly to Karachi in December 1926 when Pakistan was a part of British India.
J. R. D. Tata, the father of civil aviation in British India, made the maiden voyage from Juhu Aerodrome in Bombay (now Mumbai) to Drigh Road airstrip (now Jinnah International Airport), Karachi, via Ahmedabad, on 15 October 1932, carrying mail in a Puss Moth aircraft.
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, there was a large black coloured airship hangar at the site of Karachi Airport, constructed for the British HMA R101, at the time, the largest aircraft ever built. Only three hangars were ever built in the world to dock and hangar Britain’s fleet of passenger airships. However, the R101 never arrived in Karachi (then part of the British Raj) as it crashed and exploded just 8 hours into its maiden flight over Beauvais, France, killing all but 6 of its 54 passengers and crew.[citation needed] This hangar was so huge that aircraft often used it as a visual marker while attempting VFR landings at Karachi. Over the years, the hangar became known as the landmark of Karachi, until it was demolished by order of then-President Field Marshal Ayub Khan in the 1960s.[citation needed]
