The flight, which is operated by the UN's food program WFP, runs between Pakistan's capital Islamabad and Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan and Kandahar in the south.

Three planes have already landed in Mazar-e-Sharif since August 29.

The flight enables "160 humanitarian organizations to continue their life-saving operations in the provinces of Afghanistan", UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric.

According to Dujarric, they want to expand to more flights and more destinations in Afghanistan.

- From 2002 to 2021, the UN Humanitarian Air Service in Afghanistan visited more than 20 destinations in the country.

We will try to return to these places when the security situation and financing allow it, says Dujarric.