QUESTIONABLE RECRUITMENT
PIA has the highest ratio of employees to aircraft in the whole aviation industry.
Yet this loss making top heavy airline, with half its fleet grounded for lack of funds to procure spare parts and inflicted with cancer of colossal pilferage has been subjected to yet another rape by inducting 2,590 more employees since 2008 including over 200 pilots, amidst allegations that most of those employed bought their way in.
The Minister for Defense has conceded in Senate to 2590 more recruitments by this government. Amongst 753 officers in this top heavy airline, whose accumulated losses are in excess of Rs 135 Billion and daily escalating by Rs7 crore, include officers with fake degrees.
Some of these officers are alleged to have submitted fake degrees from a controversial university of ill-repute (Alkhair University) based in AJK. T
he stark reality is that these include PIA contract or regular employees based in Lahore, Islamabad, Multan and Karachi, who simultaneously attended their official duties at their stations of posting etc, while attending classes in AJK located hundreds of miles apart.
Recruitment of pilots in PIA has become controversial since an investigation ordered by Ministry of Defense in 90s conducted by AVM Mushaf Ali Mir submitted a report accusing the than GM Central Control of gross irregularities.
09/09/2012 : Gull Zaman / Pakistan Observer.
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