Summary The committee stated that Saad Rafique was capable of helping PIA recover from deficit crisis.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – The Joint Action Committee (JAC) on Saturday has come forward with a new suggestion for the Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA) conflict. According to JAC sources, the committee has proposed handing PIA to Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique instead of privatizing the institute.
The committee stated that the Federal Minister for Railways is capable of helping PIA recover from the deficit crisis like he had done for the railways.
Meanwhile a scheduled second meeting, between government representatives and the JAC, could not be held.
On the other hand, PIA administration late Saturday night has partially restored its flight operations with two flights departing for Jeddah as soon as the operations were resumed. The Federal government welcomed the move for resumption of flight operations.
Privatization commission’s Chairman Muhammad Zubair and JAC Chairman Captain Sohail Baloch had earlier conversed on a phone call on February 5 and move for the restoration had been expected.
The move came after 5 days of complete suspension of all flight operations of the national airlines with thousands of passengers suffering from the strike.
