PIA should adopt same policy on employees' fake degrees : Upper House's body.

Islamabad -- Senate Standing Committee on Aviation in its meeting has observed that the review committee of PIAC should maintain a uniform criteriato deal with the cases of fake degrees of PIA employees and action should be simultaneously taken against those officers and board members who appointed people with fake degrees.

The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Senator Mushahid Ullah Khan here at the Parliament House on Wednesday

The committee also observed that the earlier directions were not to give strongest punishment of termination but give lighter punishments to empires that have had longer services. The committee was told by head of the review committee that the cases of fake degrees were divided in three categories and out of the 650 cases 15 were called for physical appearance before the committee and documents of 300 people were reviewed by the committee. The committee chairman remarked that there are still at least 12 People still working in PIA on fake degrees of similar nature.

The committee asked the review committee to submit to the committee information about grade wise categorisation of employees who were terminated or given any other punishment with categorisation of the punishment as well and whether they were given or they utilised the opportunity to review and whether any special consideration was given to hardship cases. The committee also directed to provide information whether there were any cases of double punishment or different punishments for similar charges.

While discussing the matter of corruption in New Islamabad International Airport the mover expressed his dissatisfaction from the delay and inadequate responses given to the question of taking those responsible in corruption to task. The committee was told that several inquiries are still in place on the issue internally, in FIA and in NAB as well as some arbitration going on and final response can be given after they reach some substantial conclusion. It was told that a cabinet sub-committee is also constituted which is overseeing the matter. The Committee directed that the report on the matter had to be submitted to the committee in one month but it still hasn't comeand an interim report should come to these committee in the next one month. The commute also recommended that ideally the inquiry should be conducted by only one agency or through a joint investigation committee otherwise they can be contradictory conclusions and more time will be...

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