After a shocking statement by an ex-aviation minister in 2020 resulted in years-long suspension of the national airline’s flights to several countries, the federal government on Thursday formed a fact-finding committee to determine the motives behind Ghulam Sarwar’s “irresponsible and speculative” statement.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired the federal cabinet session in Islamabad today where members deliberated on various agenda items, including Sarwar’s statement which turned out to be a disaster for the country’s aviation industry.
Sarwar, during the former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government in 2020, had revealed that nearly a third of the licences issued to pilots were fake and was followed by another statement claiming that the qualifications of 262 pilots in the country were “dubious”.
