Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday sought details of cases pertaining to fake degrees of employees working in Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).
During the hearing of losses in PIA, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Gulzar Ahmed said that pilots having fake degrees are flying planes. The news of PIA privatization is a ‘joke’ with this prestigious national department, he added.
The top judge said that 700 employees work on one aircraft in PIA. He further directed Attorney General to review audit report and assist the court in next hearing.
Previously, SC had ordered verification of PIA employees’ degrees after the plaintiff claimed that the officials had received their academic degrees without even going to the private university in Azad Kashmir.
Earlier, PIA had sacked 50 cabin crew members and three pilots for holding fake degrees. The spokesperson of the airlines said that the action was taken on the instructions of the Supreme Court. An interim report was submitted to the bench by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The top court had also directed the authorities concerned to complete the process of degree verification and submit the final report on the matter.
