PIA chairman Azam Saigol resigns

Dunya News

PIA chairman Azam Saigol told that he is resigning due to personal reasons

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Chairman Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Azam Saigol resigned on Monday due to personal reasons, reported Dunya News.

Last week PIA s ATR jet PK-661 had crashed in Havelian, in which famous singer turned cleric Junaid Jamshed and DC Chitral were also travelling with 45 others. Nobody could survive in this incident.

Chairman PIA was under a lot of pressure after the incident as he was being criticised for not attention to maintenance of planes. 

Spokesperson of Aviation division told that board would decide if his resignation would be approved or not. After that spokesperson of PIA confirmed that Azam Saigol s resignation letter had been received.

It was revealed in   Dunya Kamran Khan Ke Saath   that bureaucracy was not happy with Azam Saigol after Havelian incident and they were not taken into confidence before grounding ATR planes.