Supreme Court directs AGP to audit PIA within ten weeks
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Supreme Court on Saturday directed the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) to submit audit details of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) for the last decade within 10 weeks.A two-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, was hearing a case pertaining to the privatization of the national carrier.The airline’s total loss has reached Rs. 360 billion and in which PIA had to suffer Rs. 280 in last ten years, there were must be reasons behind the loss and some one would be responsible for that, CJ asked, Shujat Azeem’s counsel.Till how long government would suffer the subsidy of Rs. 13 billion to PIA adding that some samal countries like Qatar and Kawait running their business of airlines successfully then why not Pakistan, he asserted.
