Under fire in Senate

[Abbas Ali]

Opposition delays Senate requisition on PIA issue

By Asim Yasin

ISLAMABAD: The combined opposition Saturday decided to delay requisitioning the Senate session to debate the affairs of the national flag carrier – Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) – till after ‘Ashura’.

On Friday, the opposition had hinted that it would submit the requisition for the Senate session Saturday but have changed its mind to wait for another few days to expand the agenda.

Sources hinted that the opposition had already done its homework for signing the requisition and it would be submitted by Friday.

Source: The News

[FMC]

Aren't we discussing PIA -'in the line of fire' in Senate? Why the issue of Jawed Sheikh is discussed under this topic?

Because

He said that there was no immediate plan to purchase new planes for PIA. He said that one PIA plane had been decorated with stickers purchased from a French company at the cost of 29,500 euros, including application charges. The parliamentary affairs minister added that six senior employees of PIA had been rehired after their retirement, while there were 21 pending cases between the PIA and its crewmembers. Rs 1.2 million has been spent on these cases, he said. staff report

Stickers for 29,000 euros, for one aircraft, and other issues which are directly related to SVP Javed Shaikh in zerbaer's post.

But Jawed Sheikh should have refrained from blurring the vision of his BOSS.

[FULLTHRUST]

He could have been asked to do so.
There is a PARTS MAFIA in PIA. I havent seen that chain broken as of today!!

[Abbas Ali]

Senate session requisitioned

By Raja Asghar

ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: The opposition sent a notice to Senate Chairman Mohammed Mian Soomro on Saturday to call an upper house session to discuss three issues, including what it called a "total breakdown" of law and order in the country and affairs of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), an opposition spokesman said.

Reported bifurcation of the Civil Aviation Authority will be the third item on the agenda, which the chairman must call by Feb 16 to meet a requirement of the house rules of procedure and conduct of business allowing a maximum 14 days to summon a session after receiving the requisition.

The notice deposited with the Senate secretariat was signed by 29 senators of the combined opposition, four more than the required 25 or one-fourth of the 100-seat house, according to Izhar Amrohvi, parliamentary secretary of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy.

The opposition had promised to requisition a session mainly to discuss PIA affairs immediately after a regular session was prorogued on Jan 26 amid its boycott after a similar debate to protest against a press briefing paper issued by the airline to deny charges levelled against its management before the start of the discussion.

But the law and order situation has taken precedence over the PIA affairs in light of a series of suicide bombings in the country. The attacks included a Jan 27 bombing in Peshawar that killed about 15 people, including a police chief of the city, and one a day earlier outside a five-star hotel in Islamabad that killed the bomber and a security guard hours before an Indian national day reception was held at the hotel.

Source: DAWN

[Abbas Ali]

Debate on PIA sought in Senate

ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties on Monday submitted calling attention notices in the Senate regarding the PIA, the role of secret agencies in the promotions of civil servants and the privatisation of strategic units.

Senators Saadia, Enver Beg, Prof Khurshid and Safdar Abbasi rapped the EU reporte to ban PIA flights.

Source: Daily Times

[Viscount]

Abbas. Your latest post suggests that you smell a rat in this EC issue. Are you thinking what i am thinking?

[CoyBoy]

The brief acknowledged that 29,500 euros were spent on designing the tail of an A310 plane with stickers as part of a "corporate identity transformation" of the national flag carrier's aircraft to reflect the cultural traditions of the four provinces but said tails of all other planes were being painted in-house at a cost of Rs300,000 to Rs500,000 each.

What a lie we all know more than one aircraft recieved the 3M stickered tails, like maybe all of them.