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Photo
Gallery of PIA's Finest Men and Women
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Air Marshal Malik Nur Khan
(Zaheer Khan
Collection) |
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Memorable 1970s photo of Chairman
PIA Air Marshal (Retd.) Malik Nur Khan with employees including
cabin crew of the airline. Seen in this photo are (L to R)
F. R. Khan, Nahid Talat, Qudrat U. Khan, Wahab Khan, Anis
Sheikh, Chairman PIA Malik Nur Khan, Zaheer Khan, Mary Ringrow,
Kausar, Zeenat Pirani, Arif Yaqoob & Nazir Adenwala |
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PIA Engineering Manager Enver
Jamall
(Jagan Pillarisetti
Collection) |
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Enver Jamall, PIA's engineering
manager, and Patricia Stroud, aviation writer, at Karachi
Airport in 1959 with one of PIA's Lockheed L-1049C Super
Constellation seen in the background.
Enver Jamall was one of the
finest men to lead PIA. He started his career in aviation as an
apprentice engineer at Tata Airlines (today's Air India) and
matured beautifully in his career to retire as Chairman of
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) after his migration to
Pakistan following the partition of British India. Father of
Indian Civil Aviation J.R.D. Tata said about Enver Jamall
"From the start, Enver Jamall demonstrated the outstanding
ability which led to his rapid promotion. An excellent engineer,
he also proved to be a good administrator of total integrity and
a natural leader of men. I foresaw that he would reach the top
in Air India, and was very sorry indeed to see him go, but was
very happy, as the years went by, to learn his rapid progress to
the highest position in PIA which, I knew, he fully deserved" |
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Omar Kureishi
(Abbas Ali Collection) |
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Omar Kureishi is seen at his
office in PIA in this photo from early 1970s. From 1960s to
early part of 1980s, Omar served PIA at high ranking positions
in customer and public relations departments of the airline.
Omar is also credited as the man behind creation of PIA slogan
'Great people to fly with'. It is said that during early 1960s,
Omar was having discussion with officials of a foreign
advertising agency which was given contract to launch new ads
campaign for the airline. During discussion, the advertising
agency officials asked Omar to describe PIA in his own words and
Omar replied by saying 'PIA are great people to fly with'.
Finally the day came on which the advertising agency gave
presentation to PIA management to unveil new ads campaign. Omar
was pleasantly surprised to see his remark becoming airline's
slogan as 'Great people to fly with' in ads campaign unveiled by
the news agency. The ad campaign and its slogan was given
approval by airline's Managing Director Malik Nur Khan. The
popular slogan 'Great people to fly with' is still used by PIA.
Later, Omar was one of PIA officials who held fruitful talks
with famous French designer Pierre Cardin for designing of new
uniform for airline's flight stewardesses. The uniform designed
by Cardin for PIA flight stewardesses was an instant hit and
remained in use from 1966 to 1975 |
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Flight Service Officer Nazir
Adenwala
(Zaheer Khan Collection) |
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1970s photo showing Flight Purser
Zaheer Khan (left) and Flight Service Officer Nazir Adenwala at
Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea),
where they had arrived as cabin crew members of PIA VIP flight
operated for Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
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