BA suspends Pakistan flights

Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:03am BST

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - British Airways has suspended its flights to Pakistan because of security fears after a bloody suicide truck-bomb blast at a hotel in Islamabad on the weekend, an airline spokesman said on Monday.

"We suspended all flights to Pakistan immediately after the blast. It's a temporary suspension. Our people at headquarters are reviewing the security situation," said spokesman Sohail Rehman.

The airline had six flights a week to Pakistan, he said.

(Reporting by Kamran Haider; Editing by Robert Birsel and Sanjeev Miglani)

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