In a tweet, PIA said that the licences were issued by the competent authority and were “valid as per their records”. Dubious Pilots Licenses do not pertain to PIA alone. Amid the aviation crisis, the PIA management decided to ground 150 pilots and started relieving them from flight rosters for allegedly possessing ‘dubious licences’, while asking the CAA to urgently provide the list of all those who allegedly had fake/suspicious commercial pilot licences. Sources said the PIA management had not officially received the list of those pilots having ‘dubious licences’ from the CAA, but had decided not to allow such pilots to operate flights and initiated departmental action against them. PIA spokesman Abdullah Hafeez said that it had already been announced that about 150 pilots would be grounded.

Source: Pakistan Today June 26, 2020 10:18 UTC