Pakistan's national airline reassures over 'dubious' pilot licences

Action prompted by preliminary report on crash of PIA aircraft last month Pakistan's national airline has written to foreign missions and regulatory bodies, assuring them it has grounded 141 pilots suspected of obtaining licenses through unfair means, the carrier's spokesman has said. The move is an attempt to assuage safety concerns after Pakistan's aviation minister, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, said on Friday the government had asked various commercial airlines, flying clubs and charter companies to g...