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Topic: PIA

‘National icon sold off like scrap,’ says Pakistani economist about PIA privatisation

PIA was once seen as the pride of not just Pakistan but South Asian aviation. Then came a decades-long decline and billions in losses.

‘Pakistan Immigration Airlines?’ PIA flight attendants keep ‘disappearing’ in Canada

In the latest case of a vanishing Pakistani flight attendant from Toronto, the only clue was a note in her hotel room: ‘Thank you, PIA.’

Pakistan wants to privatise national airline. It’s the country’s top loss-making entity

Most have applauded the announcement of privatisation. One user sarcastically tweeted to give PIA to the army, 'they are looking to occupy everything that Pakistan has'.

Wear ‘proper undergarments’—PIA memo to crew makes dress code personal

The internal memo by the PIA, that has now gone public, elicited a flurry of responses from people in Pakistan and abroad.

Pakistan International Airlines to appeal against EU’s 6-month flight ban on its operations

EU had banned PIA flights to and from European countries on 1 July in the wake of a major pilot licences scandal in Pakistan.

US FAA downgrades safety rank of Pakistan’s civil aviation system after fake pilots scandal

The US Transportation Department earlier this month separately notified PIA it was halting all operations after Pakistan said that 262 of its pilots had fake certificates.

Pakistan’s PIA barred from flying to US after ‘fake pilots’ scandal

PIA has been wracked by years of financial losses and on 22 May suffered a fatal crash in which 98 people died after pilots tried to touchdown without lowering the landing gear.

PIA crash in Karachi likely caused by pilot error

The findings would absolve the airlines and the planemaker of mechanical mistakes, it could push pilot training and procedures into the spotlight.

Why PIA Airbus crash has reignited questions about viability of the airline

PIA had just posted its first profit in 8 years, was starting to fly again after Covid lockdown and had proposed revival plans to the government.

Crashed PIA A-320 had grazed Karachi airport runway at 200 mph without landing gear

After abrupt descent that unnerved air-traffic controllers, crew of PIA jet briefly put it on runway with wheels still up, grinding along on its two engines.

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What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.