1200 Employees of PIA are found to have Fake Degrees
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PIA Fires 50 Employees with Fake Degrees
Some 50 Pakistan International Airlines employees, including three pilots, were terminated by the national carrier over the weekend.
The staffers were fired due to their fake academic degrees. According to the spokesperson for PIA Mashood Tajwar, the company has started a probe into the matter of fake degrees. As part of the probe those employees found guilty of the crime will be held accountable.
“We have begun probe into [the cases of] all staffers who were hired [while] holding sham degrees,”
Additionally, those with fake degrees are now facing increased scrutiny. This is due to Director General of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Hassan Baig who has also started a crackdown of his own against fake degree holders
Five Pilots Employed By PIA Have Not Even Passed Matric: CAA
At least five pilots of the national flag carrier PIA turned out to be without matriculation certificates, a report prepared by the Civil Aviation Authority revealed.
A report of CAA regarding the verification of PIA pilots’ degrees revealed that at least five pilots working for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) do not even hold a matriculation certificate.
The report was submitted to the Supreme Court by the Authority during the hearing of a suo motu case regarding fake degrees of PIA pilots.
The case was heard by a two-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar at the Lahore registry of the apex court.
The report said that degrees of seven pilots were found to be fake, while five pilots had not even passed matriculation examination.
The judge remarked that people’s lives were put at stake. “A person with a qualification less than matric is not even authorized to drive a bus, here planes are being flown by pilots who are not even matric pass,” Justice Ijaz Ahsan remarked.
The representative of PIA informed the bench that the administration of the national flag carrier has sacked 50 pilots, who failed to provide their academic credentials.
The Supreme Court ordered the concerned authorities to complete the process of degree verification and submit a final report on the matter within two days.
Earlier, during the verification process of the certificates of Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA) employees, it was revealed that 20 air hostesses and stewards of the national flag carrier hold fake matriculation certificates.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said that the educational credentials of these employees lack credence.
The CAA had earlier sent the certificates to different educational boards of the country for verification. All the boards confirmed that more than 20 crew members have fake degrees. Following the disclosure, the aviation industry’s regulator asked PIA to fire all staff members with fake certificates. The national flag carrier has initiated action against them in this regard.
Earlier this month, PIA informed the Supreme Court that at least 12 pilots and 73 crew members had fake degrees.
The government has granted approval to the launch of a new private airline, which will be starting its operations next year.
AirSial, which is a venture of Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), was given the go-ahead by Prime Minister Imran Khan to launch its operations.
The airline will be based in Sialkot. Chairman of AirSial, Fazal Jillani said it would become operational within the next year.
The Prime Minister granted the approval during a meeting with local businessmen including AirSial Chairman Fazal Jillani. The delegation was led by the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Usman Dar, who called on the premier and Minister for Privatization and Aviation Muhammad Mian Soomro in Sialkot.
The local businessmen thanked the Prime Minister for extending cooperation for the launch of the airline.
The airline is being launched jointly by the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and Sialkot International Airport.
The local business community of Sialkot had established the Sialkot International Airport on a self-help basis. Following the establishment of the airport, the business community in 2009 had decided to launch an airline to provide a cost-effective and reliant travelling facility to the community and others on both domestic and international routes.
The new airline secured an aviation license (Regular Public Transport – RPT) from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in October 2017. The airline plans to operate services to key destinations in Pakistan and the Middle East with three Airbus A320 aircraft.
During the meeting with the businessmen, the Prime Minister observed that Sialkot is fast becoming a major hub for investment and that the government would provide additional facilities to the area.
“The airline’s launch will create jobs and stimulate business activity in the region,” Khan added.
The Sialkot business community has also planned to set up a food and vegetable processing/packing centre close to the airport in order to boost exports
Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan Speech Punjab Government 100 Days Achievement Ceremony Lahore (22.12.18)
Prime Minister Imran Khan resolved that the government would make no compromise on accountability process as it were the people who bore the brunt of corruption.
Addressing the event ‘Delivering Prime Minister’s 100 Days Agenda’ to highlight the performance of the Punjab government during first 100 days, the prime minister said he said the opposition in the National Assembly was ‘doing the drama’ of political victimization contrary to the fact that not even a single case had been registered by the incumbent government.
The event was attended by Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, provincial ministers, members of the Punjab Assembly, diplomats and party workers in a huge number.
The enthusiastic workers carrying party flags chanted slogans in support of the party, the prime minister and the chief minister.
The prime minister recalled that the fake bank accounts had first surfaced in 2015 but the then government put the matter under the carpet in name of Charter of Democracy.
“We have done nothing. But we have not impeded the action (against corruption),” he added.
He said it was strange that the opposition wanted to make Shehbaz Sharif, who was in the jail of NAB (National Accountability Bureau) for corruption, head of the Public Accounts Committee.
The previous government had passed a law allowing a corrupt man to head a political party, which was nothing but the mockery of the parliament, he added. The prime minister told the gathering that he had asked his party to accept the opposition’s every demand like issuance of the production order of Khawaja Saad Rafiq and making Shehbaz Sharif PAC chairman.
However, “we cannot agree to backtrack from the accountability” as it was inevitable for the secure future of the country and next generations, he added. The country’s future would remain imperiled until “we arrest the corrupt.”
The prime minister said he had launched his political career with the slogan against corruption and he would never make any compromise in the name of protecting democracy.
He censured the previous government for spending Rs 250 billion budget of South Punajb in other cities, what ,he said, had increased the sense of deprivation among the people of area. The disintegration of Pakistan was the consequence of such injustices with the people, he added.
He called for learning from the mistakes done in the past and also mentioned the injustices meted out to the people of Balochistan.
The prime minister appreciated the Punjab government for allocating exclusive budget for the South Punjab.
He said the non-development of remote areas put burden on major cities and cited the problems faced by the Lahore city like pollution and congestion.
The Pakistan International School of Damascus: The unreported and silent success story of diplomacy
Pakistan has played a quiet but important role in providing high quality education to Syrians from all walks of life.
Almost all the stories coming out of Syria over the last few years have been of doom and gloom. There has been much destruction to a land rooted in deep and unparalleled history, possessing two of the world’s oldest cities along with people who can easily be called the world’s most diverse set of communities coexisting peacefully; all before regional and international actors made it a battleground for proxy warfare.
Before the war, Syria had the most robust state education system in the Arab world, and even the BBC did an in-depth documentary on the diversity and progressive nature of the Syrian school system. It is these real stories of the Syrian school system and a healthcare system that once was the envy of the Arab world that need to be highlighted as Syria begins it slow but steady recovery towards normality.
It is here that Pakistan has played a quiet but important role in providing high quality education to Syrians from all walks of life. The Pakistan International School (PIS) of Damascus, which comes under the auspices of the Pakistani Embassy, has become a leading school in the country. Meanwhile, other international schools, such as the French School of Damascus and the American School, shut down as the war peaked in 2014 and 2015.
So what has the PIS done quietly that has made it a humanitarian and diplomatic success?
Graduation Day
Peter Oborne, one of Britain’s leading journalists, recently returned from a two-week trip to Syria and highlighted the resilience of the Syrian education system despite unjust sanctions, and focused on how the government is rebuilding schools and carrying out the national curriculum amongst the ruins. A regular visitor to Syria, Oborne also talks about the sense of normalcy and quiet stability that has returned to the streets, and how Syrians have started looking ahead almost immediately without stopping to think about the opportunities lost.
For the PIS, the story has been a similar one. The will and desire of the Syrian people to get on with education has helped the Pakistani Embassy run its school.
Orientation Day
During the first couple of years of the war, student numbers dropped dramatically and the school was hit with staffing problems and a lack of interest from the Foreign Office in Islamabad. However, under incumbent Ambassador to Syria Air Marshal (Retd) Rashid Kamal and his team of teachers, advisors and administrators, the school is looking to reach new heights.
In 2018, Kamal took over from Athar Bukhari, another very successful diplomat who came in at a very difficult time in 2015 and revived the overall diplomatic relations between Damascus and Islamabad. Kamal has taken these ties further, with a keen interest in capitalising on Syria’s huge human capital.
Career counselling
A cancer awareness campaign
The PIS caters not only to those families that can afford to pay, but gives need-based scholarships on the basis of merit and has also supported schools outside of Damascus hit by the war or the influx of internally-displaced people. The school has supported special needs and disabled children affected by the war.
Raising funds at a bake sale
Teacher training has been a particular focus of the current administration, and for the first time since the war, the Ambassador has made arrangements for an international school trip, while a potential student exchange program is in the pipeline, alongside bringing in coaches from the British Council or the University of Cambridge. The school has also enrolled children of other foreign diplomats serving in Damascus, as more and more embassies reopen while Syria gets ready to return to full diplomatic relations with the rest of the world.
Celebrating Christmas
According to Ambassador Kamal,
“For Pakistan, it has been the most important thing to provide world class education in times of extreme war – education is a fundamental right which should not be indulged with politics and sanctions. We are making sure we carry on the legacy of this school, but diversify in such a manner that it benefits the people of Syria.”
He goes on to say the Syrians are the most remarkable and positive people he has encountered in his career
PIA resumes its night flight operations in KP
Night flying was discontinued four years ago due to aviation safety concerns.
KARACHI: Pakistan International Airline (PIA) will facilitate KhyberPakhtunkhwa (KP) passengers by revising its flight schedule for night operation in Peshawar. The night flying was discontinued four years ago due to aviation safety concerns.
PIA President and CEO Air Marshal Arshad Malik thanked the aviation minister for his prompt action and vigorous efforts in resolving the matter with all concerned quarters, especially the security agencies, for lifting the restrictions.
The issue was highlighted to Aviation Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro during his visit to PIA Head Office last Friday.
The PIA spokesman said that after removal of restriction, PIA will revise its flight schedule for Peshawar, adding more flights for the convenience of KP public, as they were facing difficulties in connectivity.
For the first time, China sent latest fighter J10C abroad for training. 20-day China Pakistan Shaheen VII Air Exercise executed successfully. Mirage V,JH7, J11b, J10C, JF17A, Mirage III can be seen in background. COAS Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa was in cockpit of J10C during exercise.
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