PIA DMD finally on his way out… but to be replaced by a man on contract extension?

The contracts of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Deputy Managing Director (DMD) Saleem Syani and PIA Director Flight Operations (DFO) Capt Ilyas are expiring in June, following which Haneef Pathan and Capt Naveed Aziz would probably replace them.
Sources informed Pakistan Today that the DMD had continued his job even when MD Ejaz Haroon was recently removed from his post by a massive campaign of a joint action committee of the Pakistan Airline Pilots Association.
They said that the only reason the DMD was able to safely continue his job was because his contract stipulates that he has the right to sue the PIA if he is removed.
The successor of the current DMD would probably be Administration Director Haneef Pathan, who had retired in January, but PIA Chairman Ahmed Mukhtar extended his job tenure by two years when Ejaz Haroon was still the PIA MD. The former PIA MD had not let Pathan resume his job after retirement, but the latter bypassed the former and was able to secure an extension from thezPIA chairman.
Similarly, the new PIA management replaced Shuja Naqvi with Capt Ilyas as the DFO, but Ilyas’ contract would expire in June and he might be replaced with Civil Aviation Authority Flight Standards Director Capt Naveed Aziz. The PIA spokesman told Pakistan Today that the post of the DMD is not an important one, so it is possible that someone from the PIA management would succeed the current DMD.
He said that Pathan is a senior employee and could replace the current DMD, but he would have to seek permission for the post because he has crossed the approved age limit and is currently working on extension.
Sources said that this practice of placing “unsuitable” persons on key posts in the PIA is not uncommon since the former MD had appointed a junior employee, Khurram Mushtaq, as the Passenger and Sales General Manager (GM) because he is the son-in-law of former Defence Minister (late) Rao Sikander Iqbal.
Mushtaq had joined the PIA in 2004 and was the country manager in Saudi Arabia, whereas he was made the GM after retirement of then GM Rashid Farooqi.