Bonn (Germany), Nov 26: Only three days after it suspended flights to Iraq, international express courier DHL said it was temporarily halting its service to Afghanistan while it carried out a security review in the volatile country. The cargo service, formerly us-owned but now a unit of Germany's Deutsche Post, said yesterday it would conduct a thorough assessment of security conditions in the central Asian nation.
DHL has been operating six flights a week into Afghanistan, mostly bringing in humanitarian aid supplies.
It suspended its flights to Iraq on November 22 after one of its planes was hit by a surface-to-air missile as it left Baghdad airport and was forced to make an emergency landing.
Bureau Report