According to reports, three under-age children were allowed to board a London bound flight through the national airline without their parents.
It was clearly mentioned on the visas that the children could not travel without their parents.
In reaction, the British government fined PIA.
Meanwhile, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik ordered suspension of three officials including FIA Immigeration Shift-Incharge for negligence.
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They should have fined Malik form his accounts already in UK and not PIA which is already in a loss. Rehman Malik started his stint in catching thieves( YOU Need a thief to --) form FIA. As DG FIA and NOW the highest public Servant in the line he should face the brunt.
This can serve a good lesson for PIA
This is a proof that UK is going bankrupt so they are coming up with these cheap ideas to make money. Other day i was watching a documentary where the white folks are punished by taking there babies away if they sleep with the baby in the same room.
The western world never got out of there dark ages they are still in it spiritually...
Very good, PIA deserves this. poor management, sick staff. Ain't they aware with the rules and regulations?
Besides punishing the personnel at the airport; The ministry for interior should apprehend the persons who brought the children to the airport and paid graft to the those in order to violate the rules.
in other news Pakistan government fines British govt for the Radcliffe award
What else can you expect from a corrupt immigration staff, most of whom cant even read what is written. Somebdy must have put strong political pressure from high profile politician to get such a favor that 3 minor children could board the flight from Islamabad. Remember during Mush era, the British Government had threatened to suspend all UK flights from Islamabad because of too many passengers allowed to board flights for UK with fake visas. All these passengers were from Gujrat. Guess who was the powerful PML(Q) figure from Gujrat who was behind all this?.
But get behind the facts: who pressured whom to allow these kids to board/
The headline should be: "British government fines PIA for allowing unsupervised minor children to board plane."