Pakistan's national airline has apologised for the advertisement, which is still online more than a week after it was first posted.

Pakistan’s national airline says that an advertisement showing a plane heading toward the Eiffel Tower was never intended to evoke the memories of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Pakistan’s flag carrier has drawn widespread criticism for putting out an advertisement that showed a plane flying towards the Eiffel Tower, media reports said. The ad was meant to promote the resumption of Pakistan International Airlines’ flights to the French capital and had the caption “Paris,

Pakistan's embattled national airline apologized on Friday for an advert of a plane flying at the Eiffel Tower, published to mark the first flight to Paris after a safety ban was lifted.

The prime minister of Pakistan has ordered an investigation over an ad by the country’s flag carrier that was criticized as resembling the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister has ordered an official investigation into the country’s national airline over an advertisement widely criticized for evoking the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) published the advertisement last week with an image of a plane flying toward the Eiffel Tower — eerily similar to photographs of the planes heading straight into Manhattan’s Twin Towers in 2001.