According to news sources:
PIA Engineering and Airports Security Force (ASF) personnel clashed at Multan Airport.
A PIA Aircraft Engineer was injured and his uniform shirt was torn.
The incident happened on the issue of ASF security search performed during routine maintenance inspections of a PIA aircraft.
PIA Engineering staff was busy performing maintenance inspections on airline's aircraft that had arrived in Multan from Dubai.
PIA Engineering staff got upset over their body search performed repeatedly by ASF personnel during aircraft maintenance inspections.
PIA Multan Station Manager has sent a report to higher officials.
ASF protects aircraft on the ground and it occupants including passengers and crew from terrorist activity and also monitor/search airport workers/catering/cleaning/airline ground staff etc. entering parked aircraft to prevent placement of explosives and smuggling of banned items like narcotics in the aircraft.
Maybe the aircraft was PIA Airbus A320 aircraft registration AP-BLA that had arrived in Multan at 3:33 PM as flight PK222 from Dubai today.
Source: flightradar24.com
Later, PIA Airbus A320 aircraft registration AP-BLA left Multan at 5:33 PM as flight PK171 to Muscat.
Source: flightradar24.com
The aircraft remained on the ground at Multan Airport for about two hours.
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Re: Repeated Security Search - PIA Engineering Clashes With ASF at Multan Airport
Urdu daily "Dunya" July 13, 2022, report:
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