PPP rejects PIA plane crash report.

Byline: Aamir Yasin

ISLAMABAD -- While rejecting the report about the May 22 Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane crash, presented by Federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan in the National Assembly, Pakistan Peoples Party demanded the prime minister and aviation minister's resignation.

PPP Information Secretary Dr Nafisa Shah, Palwasha Khan and Senator Rubina Khalid said that the report should have gone to the committee first and then to the house. 'The pilot has been accused and licences of pilots have been suspected; the person whose own degree is suspected is now talking about pilots' degrees,' they said.

Dr Shah said: '97 people died in the crash but neither the prime minister nor the minister resigned from office. During his time in opposition, PM...

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