| Aerial firing during a marriage function near Islamabad airport late on Tuesday forced authorities to halt flight operations for more than an hour. Police sources told Daily Times that a Dubai-bound flight was about to take off when gunshots were heard from a nearby locality. Officials of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) delayed the flight while putting security on high alert. Police rushed to the scene and established that some gunshots had been fired into the air during a marriage function in a locality near the airport.The airport authorities, however, said that delay to the Dubai-bound flight was an operational one. The flight took off after a one-hour delay. |