British Airways to resume Pakistan flights next week after a decade

A British Airways Boeing 747 comes in to land at Heathrow airport in London, June 25, 2018. [Reuters]

British Airways will resume flights to Pakistan next week a decade after it suspended operations following a major hotel bombing, becoming the first Western airline to restart flights to the South Asian country.

BA halted service to Pakistan in the wake of the 2008 Marriott Hotel bombing in the capital Islamabad that took place during a period of devastating Islamist militant violence in Pakistan.