Islamabad, June 30 (TNS): A two member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar has ordered the auditor general of Pakistan to complete an audit of Pakistan International Airlines’ accounts within 10 weeks.
Hearing a case pertaining to the national flag carrier, the chief justice noted that PIA’s losses have reached Rs360 billion and the government cannot continue to run the airlines on an annual Rs13bn subsidy. He then ordered the auditor general to undergo a comprehensive audit of the airlines.
The court also ordered the name of another former adviser on Aviation, Shujaat Azeem, to be removed from the Exit Control List (ECL) and said that he must appear before the auditor general if called, warning that his property would be seized in case of failure to comply.
