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List of airports in Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ2602824 ↗
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Pakistan has a total of 25 airports, including three major hubs in Karachi, Islamabad, and Lahore. Six additional medium-sized airports are located in Peshawar, Multan, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Quetta, and Sukkur, while the remaining are classified as smaller airports.

Most civil airports in Pakistan are operated by the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority. However, Sialkot International Airport, owned by the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry, stands out as Pakistan's first privately owned airport, also the first of its kind in South Asia, and is open to both domestic and international flights. Military airbases are primarily managed by the Pakistan Air Force, except for the Dhamial and Tarbela Army Aviation Airbases, which are under the Pakistan Army's jurisdiction and Faisal Airbase, Karachi which is being managed in partnership with Pakistan Navy, the naval air arm of the Pakistan military.

Gallery

Civilian list

Names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines.

Military list

Main article (list of airbases in pakistan)

Defunct Airports

Major traffic flows by airport

See also

Dry ports, sea ports and railway stations in Pakistan

Air Bases of Pakistan Air Force

Airlines of Pakistan

Transport in Pakistan

List of airports by ICAO code: O#OP – Pakistan

Wikipedia: Airline destination lists: Asia#Pakistan

References

"ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 12 January 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2007.

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