Senate body unearths scam in PIA

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Senate body unearths scam in PIA

Imran Mukhtar
July 03, 2010



ISLAMABAD — The Senate’s Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production has unearthed a scam within Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) about the theft of 1100 service trolleys, amounting to more than 550000 Singapore dollars, used in the planes of national carrier.
It is strange how the service trolleys disappeared from the airplanes despite the presence of CCTV cameras as well as stringent security vigilance at the airports.

Each trolley costs more than 500 Singapore dollars and thus, the national carriage had to bear the heavy loss, which is already facing a fiscal deficit of billions of rupees. It is pertinent to mention here that PIA bore the loss of 5.4 billion during the year 2009 with an accumulated loss of 43.4 billion during the last two years. The PIA crews use these service trolleys to provide eatables as well as other services to the passengers.

Haji Adeel Ahmed of ANP drew the attention of the Committee, towards the scam, that met on Friday in the Parliament in the chair of Senator Let Gen (Retd) Javed Ashraf, to look into the measures taken by PIA to bail it out of the financial crunch.

Managing Director (MD) PIA, Ijaz Haroon, confirmed the Committee about the theft of trolleys saying that a general manager level officer of the airline had been placed under suspension and had been demoted from his post as punishment.

But the worst part of the story is that PIA made no recovery from its employees involved in the scam. When the Committee asked about the recovery from the MD, he surprisingly questioned as to whom they would recover the money. Yet, at the same time admitting that PIA employees are selling the trolleys to other airlines.

The Committee also showed its reservation over the withdrawal of facilities given by PIA to business class passengers despite charging high fares from them. The Committee exposed another irregularity done on the part of the airline management, observing that the crew never provided the wrist watches and leather cum metal key chains to the passengers that airline must give to business class on demand basis as per its policy. It transpired during the meeting that the PIA crew avoided informing the passengers about the facility and that there was no transparent method to maintain the record of how many such watches were given to the passengers. The Committee recommended that instead of wristwatches, the management should provide shaving kits as well as dental kits to business class passengers and upgrade the business class to international standards.
Deputy Chairman Senate, Jan Mohammad Jamali, remarked that PIA workers were like a demoralized force with bad attitude and they, themselves, did not own the airline, which was the basic cause of the PIA’s decline.


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[Neo]

PIA catches ex-employees stealing

Saturday, July 03, 2010

KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Friday said it caught four of its former engineers red handed stealing took kits worth one million rupees.

Naeem Ahmed, Mir Muhammad Salman, Saleem Farrukh and Anjm Kashif were stopped by PIA security while trying to board an Emirates flight EK-601 bound for Dubai, said a PIA handout.

“The ex-employees of PIA had stolen four tool kits and manuals from PIA Engineering Department worth over one million rupees. PIA security team acted timely and caught them red handed along with stolen four engineering tool kits and manuals,” it said.

PIA says these former engineers were heading to Dubai to join Emirates. “PIA security officials requested Emirate Airline staff and FIA to off load the accused but they refused to do so.” All the four engineers left for Dubai on board EK-607.

“Officer engineering Naeem Ahmed had taken early retirement from PIA and rest of the three people resigned from their jobs to take up employment in Emirates Airlines,” PIA said.

PIA catches ex-employees stealing

[Neo]

PIA expels 200 employees over fake degrees

LAHORE: The Pakistan International Airlines has terminated the services of 200 employees who had gotten their jobs on the basis of fake academic degrees, a private TV channel reported on Thursday. According to the spokesperson of the national airline, the PIA had received information in 2008 of its employees who had submitted fake degrees at the time of their induction. On the basis of the information, the airline ordered an inquiry of all such employees hired after 1997 and found at least 750 such workers. The PIA had given these people two years to complete their education and fulfil the required criteria for a job with the national airline. After the expiry of the deadline, the PIA sacked 200 employees who failed to complete the minimum required criteria, the channel added. daily times monitor

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[Lady Macbeth]

Originally Posted by Neo

PIA catches ex-employees stealing

Saturday, July 03, 2010

KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Friday said it caught four of its former engineers red handed stealing took kits worth one million rupees.

Naeem Ahmed, Mir Muhammad Salman, Saleem Farrukh and Anjm Kashif were stopped by PIA security while trying to board an Emirates flight EK-601 bound for Dubai, said a PIA handout.

“The ex-employees of PIA had stolen four tool kits and manuals from PIA Engineering Department worth over one million rupees. PIA security team acted timely and caught them red handed along with stolen four engineering tool kits and manuals,” it said.

PIA says these former engineers were heading to Dubai to join Emirates. “PIA security officials requested Emirate Airline staff and FIA to off load the accused but they refused to do so.” All the four engineers left for Dubai on board EK-607.

“Officer engineering Naeem Ahmed had taken early retirement from PIA and rest of the three people resigned from their jobs to take up employment in Emirates Airlines,” PIA said.

PIA catches ex-employees stealing

Prime example of 'jis thalee main khatay hai usee main chaid kartay hain' (punching holes in the plate you eat from)....tsk tsk! What is the world coming to? Worst of all what will Pakistan come to with all these types of traitors/turncoats eating it up like termites from within.....I feel for PIA, used to be classified as one of the best airlines in the 80s......and now......???

[vinod2070]

Originally Posted by Lady Macbeth

Prime example of 'jis thalee main khatay hai usee main chaid kartay hain' (punching holes in the plate you eat from)....tsk tsk! What is the world coming to? Worst of all what will Pakistan come to with all these types of traitors/turncoats eating it up like termites from within.....I feel for PIA, used to be classified as one of the best airlines in the 80s......and now......???

This is nothing. There are people who divide their own country, the very motherland which has nourished them and their forefathers for thousands of years!

There is no depth a man can't fall to.

[Lady Macbeth]

Originally Posted by vinod2070

This is nothing. There are people who divide their own country, the very motherland which has nourished them and their forefathers for thousands of years!

There is no depth a man can't fall to.

Can you blame the one who do divide their own country, the very motherland which has nourished them and their forefathers for thousands of years???
Afterall what else did you expect from those "you" consider 'marauding invaders'?

[vinod2070]

Originally Posted by Lady Macbeth

Can you blame the one who do divide their own country, the very motherland which has nourished them and their forefathers for thousands of years???
Afterall what else did you expect from those "you" consider 'marauding invaders'?

To go back to their sand deserts (or herd pasteurs) and leave our beautiful country alone!

That is for the invaders only. From the natives (and those that became Indians in body and spirit) I would expect unconditional loyalty and patriotism irrespective of how they chose to worship (or not worship) their deity (or deities).

And those that have become fake Arabs or Turks or whatever catches their fancy, they should also go back!

[Lady Macbeth]

Its a pity you dont consider the tea drinking 'Firangis' as the perps responsible for the division of the sub continent as well.....oh well out of sight, out of mind!

[vinod2070]

Originally Posted by Lady Macbeth

Its a pity you dont consider the tea drinking 'Firangis' as the perps responsible for the division of the sub continent as well.....oh well out of sight, out of mind!

Yes they were. They were also aware of when their days were up and they packed up and went back when they were.

Some others never realized this and had burned all their bridges to back home.

[DarkStar]

Originally Posted by vinod2070

Yes they were. They were also aware of when their days were up and they packed up and went back when they were.

Some others never realized this and had burned all their bridges to back home.

Why don't the Brahmins of Bharat be so kind and lead the way by example. We all know the Aryans came from across the Hindu Kush, I promise we will follow where you lead :)