Mai Bakhtawar Airport is an

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surfa ...

near

Mithi Mithi (, ur, ), is a city and the capital of Tharparkar District in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It became the district headquarter of the Tharparkar District in 1990, after the area's separation from Mirpur Khas. Mithi is one of the very fe ...

and Islamkot,

Tharparkar District Tharparkar (Dhatki/ sd, ٿرپارڪر, ur, ), also known as Thar, is a district in Sindh province in Pakistan headquartered at Mithi. Before Indian independence it was known as the Thar and Parkar district. The district is the largest in Sin ...

in the Sindh province of

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

it is named after

Mai Bakhtawar , image = , alt = , caption = , birth_name = , birth_date = 1880 , birth_place = Tando Bago, Badin District, British India (now Pakistan) , death_date = , death_place = , nationality = , movement = Hari M ...

Lashari Shaheed a farm worker who was murdered during a landlord/tenant confrontation . It has been constructed by the

Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) ( ur, ) is a state-owned autonomous body under the administrative control of the Secretary to the Government of Pakistan for Aviation, which oversees and regulates all aspects of civil aviation in Paki ...

at a cost of Rs. 972.07 million at the request of the

Sindh Coal Authority Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...

to facilitate the development of the

Thar coalfield The Thar coalfield is located in Thar Desert, Tharparkar District of Sindh province in Pakistan. The deposits—16th-largest coal reserves in the world, were discovered in 1991 by Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) and the United States Agency f ...

nearby. Clearance for the construction of the airport was given by Pakistan's Ministry of Defence on 25 September 2009 as it lies within of Pakistan's international border with India. It is being constructed to cater for Category-C aircraft as per ICAO standards and will have a 7,000 ft. long runway. The airport would be used for both civil and military air traffic.

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