A group of the sacked employees’ have once again appealed to CEO, PIA Air Marshal Arshad Malik to stop further issuance of illegal dismissals from service since his actions were becoming death penalty for affected people and their families. Top of Form There were two latest sad incidents reported among PIA management’s targeted degree based employees. First, the Duty Briefing Officer (DBO) Rubina Qureshi, a Senior Flying Crew member, who was genuine Degree holder but Management of PIA, dismissed her from service on fake allegations. In result, first her husband died due to cancer for not having hospital treatment because of dismissal of her wife. And now Rubina Qureshi was also paralyzed due to lack of proper treatment and medicines. Another incident was death of Noor Ul Huda (Uniform Section) who was also the victim of fake Degree case. He was collapsed soon after receiving dismissal letter while it was last year of his service before retirement. Noor Ul Huda too wa...

Termination of 121 employees from Pakistan International Airlines including Pilots, cabin crews and low ranking staff by the non-professional management has become laughing stock. Another 377 disciplinary cases were pending against various classes of employees in the PIA for submitting fake or tampered with educational documents, according to the airline spokesperson. On 7 th May the Senate Standing Committee on Aviation called upon the PIA management. The committee met for the sixth time to discuss the issue of PIA employees. Most of the committee members held that terminating staff from service was a drastic action. The Committee referred to the 12 employees who were allowed to retain their jobs in 2017. “If PIA took a lenient view for some, its management should show similar compassion to all its employees and retain them, instead of laying them off. PIA has a category of minor punishment which can be handed down to employees possessing fake degrees,” said committee chai...