PPP leaders have said minister for aviation should step down and he should be tried under high treason charges for causing enormous loss to the country.
PPP leaders including Nafisa Shah, Palosha Khan, Senator Robina Khalid and others said this while addressing a press conference on Wednesday.
Nafisa Shah said minister for aviation said on the floor of assembly on June 24 that 262 out of 860 pilots are holding suspicious licenses and degrees. We had demanded resignation from him on this wrong report. His statement has caused irreparable loss to PIA. Pakistani pilots have been laid off by all the airlines in the world over this statement. They have barred PIA planes to land in their respective countries. This loss has not been caused by any enemy but it has been inflicted by a federal minister. Therefore a high treason case be registered against him and he should tender resignation as well.
She held PM Imran Khan ATM have evolved plan to devastate national institutions and purchase them on their own. PM is defending minister for aviation plane crash report.
She said selected PM entered into assembly when opposition was not present.
Palosha Khan said there is no justification for Imran Khan to sit in PM house.
Who had said Taliban should open their office. Those who had run Modi campaign are now saying India has attacked stock exchange. she said. Efforts are under way to sell Rosevelt hotel and PIA on throwaway prices.
Meanwhile, Parliamentary leader of the PPP in the Senate, Senator Sherry Rehman questioned, “Why the PIA 8303 crash report was not discussed when the pilot’s license was not even dubious?”
The federal government has crashed the entire airlines and now we are getting cancellations from all over the world. Not all pilots were involved in this fiasco as most of our competent pilots and the aviation industry are now facing a risk to their career and livelihoods, she added
She said that the issue had raised questions on PIA’s performance and Pakistan’s brand but unfortunately we are not getting the answers from the federal government”.
“From the past one year, with intervals of few months, we have been saying that this entire license issue should be investigated in a thorough and transparent manner. You did not investigate nor did you take action, instead you are putting the blame on someone else and crashing PIA yourself. Is it not that this has been done intentionally and to avoid the safety warnings being given from the past one year?” she asked.
She said, “Now that the entire airline has been crashed, can the federal government please tell us why this has been done? 30% of pilot degrees have been declared fake and we have gained bad repute internationally.”
“Is this the time to sell Roosevelt Hotel New York, when due to Pandemic property prices have come down significantly and it will result in a loss to Pakistan as we won’t get the right price. The property is worth billions and was making a profit when I was serving as an ambassador in the US”.
Senator Sherry Rehman concluded by questioning the federal government that, “Is this being done for a fire sale of the airlines after cannibalizing and asset stripping it, with the proceeds being thrown to the cronies of the government? As this is that’s what it is beginning to look like and we will not let this happen”.
