The dubious license issue emerged after the preliminary probe report of the Karachi plane crash blamed the pilots and the air traffic control for the tragedy that killed 97 people.
PIA hasn’t made a profit in 15 years & liabilities amounted to $3.8 billion last year. It has some 14,000 employees for a fleet of only about 30 planes.
PIA also grounds 141 pilots after Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan tells parliament Pakistan’s 30% pilots were found to have obtained licence through unfair means.
Zara Abid, a Pakistani-origin model, who is presumed dead in the plane crash that took place last week is being attacked by people for her lifestyle choices.
According to the PIA official, the captain informed the air traffic control that he was having problems with the landing gear before the aircraft disappeared from the radar.
The PIA flight PK-303 from Lahore was about to land in Karachi when it crashed at the Jinnah Garden area near Model Colony in Malir, just a minute before its landing.
If insisting that women be treated with equal dignity is 'targeting a community', then perhaps every community ought to be 'targeted' until equality is universal.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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