No pilot's license was found bogus: CAA DG
Pakistan
Out of 141 suspicious licenses, 69 were cleared
LAHORE (Web Desk) – The Director General (DG) Civil Aviation Authority claimed in the Senate Standing Committee on Aviation that no pilot's license was found bogus.
During the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) era, Federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan had alleged that the licenses of many pilots were fake. However, DG Civil Aviation told the National Assembly Standing Committee on Aviation that no pilot's license was fake. There were issues with the licenses of 141 pilots out of which 69 have been cleared.
He said that there is a 35 to 40 percent tax on salaries, and all pilots want to leave PIA.
Earlier, during the PTI era, news of fake pilot licenses were common. The minister alleged that a good number of licenses were bogus. Ex-Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan had alleged that investigations had found that more than 260 of the country's 860 pilots had bogus documents.
It is to be noted that the issue surfaced after a plane crash in Karachi in 2018. A probe, as international media then reported, disclosed that 150 of its 434 pilots had "either bogus or suspicious licenses.
