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The landing took place after security forces beefed up security around the airport and no one was allowed in the vicinity.
The sources were of the view that the facility might be used in the coming days for ground operations against Afghanistan, which the US and Britain have begun bombing in a bid to smash suspected terrorist centres.
The US on Sunday launched military strikes on Afghanistan to get hold of Saudi renegade Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington.
Afghanistan's ruling Taleban militia had refused to hand over bin Laden unless evidence of his involvement in the terror attacks was provided to them.
Meanwhile, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has stopped flights to at least five domestic destinations due to the volatile situation in the region.
The destinations include Zhob, Panjgur and Khuzdar in Baluchistan province, Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab province and Dera Ismail Khan in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Sources said these air routes fell in the corridor close to the route taken by US jets bombing Afghanistan.
Earlier, the PIA had cancelled its Karachi-Toronto, Lahore-Manchester and Karachi-Rome-Paris flights.
In another development, an umbrella grouping of Pakistani extremists called upon Americans to leave the country or 'be ready to face the wrath', the SADA news agency reported from Islamabad.
The warning was issued Monday by the Pakistan Afghan Defence Council, which is a grouping of 41 religious and militant outfits.
A leader of the council Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi said, "Americans must leave Pakistan if they desire long lives. Not only Americans, but all those supporting the US attacks should also leave the country."
He called President Pervez Musharraf a coward 'who has betrayed the nation and the whole Muslim world by offering unstinted support to the US'.
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