Share:The federal government on Friday planned to outsource three international airports including Karachi’s Jinnah, Lahore’s Allama Iqbal, and Islamabad’s international airport. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, while presiding over the session on aviation and Pakistan International Airline (PIA) affairs, directed to initiate the process of outsourcing under public-private partnership. The PM also formed a committee comprising Federal Minister for aviation Khawaja Saad Rafique and federal secretary for aviation, Federal Minister for planning and development Ahsan Iqbal, and Federal Law minister Azam Nazir Tarar to overlook the process. The department officials said they were working on plans to get the PIA out of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s blacklist. Earlier, the aviation minister had informed the Senate that changes in the PIA would be visible within a few months.
