ISLAMABAD (INP) :Chairman Senate Mian Raza Rabbani has issued contempt notices to Secretary Civil Aviation and concerned director of PIA for not responding to a calling attention notice relating to air accident of PIA’s plane near Havelian.
The Chairman observed that ere resignation of PIA Chairman was not enough and criticised the airline for not responding to the questions put forward by the upper house of the parliament. He said the PIA has made it a routine not to respond the queries of the legislators. Earlier Minister for Law Zahid Hamid went to the Secretary of the Senate asking him to defer the calling attention notice as the concerned minister was not present.
The chairman took notice of it and observed that despite a huge cabinet, there was no minister in the house to respond to the calling attention notice. The notice was moved by Senator Samina Abid about the Havelian incident.
Leader of the house Senator Raja Zafarul Haq said he had been trying since morning to contact Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab but could not do so.
He said after the ATR aircraft accident, all the ATRs of PIA have been grounded while the people were sacrificing goats before travelling on the national airliner. He regretted that the house was not taken into confidence about the tragedy.
