PakistanwillprivatizethecorebusinessofitsnationalairlinePakistanInternationalAirlines(PIA))beforemid-Aprilthisyear,accordingtolocalreportsTuesday.QuotingMiniste
Pakistan's national airline has been mocked after a goat was sacrificed to ward off bad luck following one of the country's worst air disasters.
There were no survivors after a plane carrying 48 passengers crashed into a mountain in northern Pakistan on Wednesday (Dec 7), the airline’s chairman said, as recovery operations continued late into the night at the remote crash site.
Workers of the Pakistan's state-owned airlines on Tuesday announced that they have called off strike against a government privatization plan after they were invited for talks to listen to their demands.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has warned that action will be taken against those workers of national airlines on a countrywide protest against the government's privatization plan.
Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar made it clear on Sunday that the Islamabad-incumbent government had no plan to privatize the state-run Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).
One female passenger was killed and two crew members injured when unknown gunmen opened fire at a passenger plane of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) during its landing at the airport of the country's northwestern city of Peshawar late on Tuesday, said a PIA official on Wednesday.