Being under severe financial crunch, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is hiring services of about 50 officers as a part of the strategy to take the airliner out of financial crisis, said Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmad while replying to a call attention notice moved by Dr Nafisa Shah and others in the National Assembly.
The minister said the vacancies were advertised and candidates would be selected on a two-year contract through a transparent process. He said PIA was a profit-making organisation when the previous PML-N government was dismissed. He said there was a need to induct new blood into the corporation to make it viable.
Responding to another call attention moved by Khalida Mansoor and others, Sheikh Aftab assured the House that the government would implement the latest package of the prime minister for families of government employees who died during service. He said the package envisages a hundred percent pension for widows for life, allotment of a plot, free higher education for all children and regular employment for a child.
The minister of state said a committee headed by finance secretary is reviewing financial implications of the package.
The assembly speaker referred “The Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2015”, moved by Muhammad Ayaz Soomro, to the standing committee concerned when it was not opposed by parliamentary affairs minister. The amendment in Article 184 envisages revival of magistracy system.
The same member moved a bill to amend the National Accountability Ordinance envisaging recruitments in National Accountability Bureau (NAB) through Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC). It was also referred to the standing committee concerned after it was not opposed by minister of state for interior.
Zahra Wadood Fatemi’s bill to make civic education a compulsory subject in schools was also referred to the standing committee concerned after it was not opposed by minister of state for education and professional training.
