Lahore: Pakistan on Wednesday suspended flight operations across major airports, including Islamabad and Lahore, for an indefinite period in the wake of the escalating tensions with India, a top civil aviation authority said. Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Mujtaba Baig told PTI that flight operations in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces have been suspended for an indefinite period. 

He said the flight operations from and to Lahore, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Multan and Rawalpindi airports have been suspended. The planes which had left from foreign destinations for these airports have been diverted to the safer airports, he said. The move comes amid escalation of tension between India and Pakistan after IAF carried out strikes on terror bases in Pakistan.