PIA Airline restart flights Joint investigation team to probe Amir murder

PIA resumed flights Sunday after Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik took notice of killing of PIA union leader Amir Shah.Interior Minister ordered to form a joint investigative team to probe murder of Amir Shah.According to sources, this team would be included personnel of police and Federal Investigation Agency.After assurance of Interior Minister, PIA staff called off strike and flights were resumed at all airports of the country.Earlier, employees of the Pakistan International Airlines went on a strike on weekend against the murder of President of Pakistan People’s Party PIA employee union Amir Shah.Meanwhile, Rawalpindi-Islamabad Senior Staff Association President Samir Karamat and General Secretary Najeeb Khan while condemning killing of Amir Shah said, such incidents are regrettable. they demanded of the government to immediate take steps for bringing killers of Amir Shah to justice.

Shah, who also worked as former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s security guard in 2007, was killed in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar area of Karachi when unknown assailants opened fire on his car on Saturday evening. The infuriated activists of the People’s Unity on the murder of their union president Aamir Shah had forced shut the Jinnah Terminal PIA booking office, the aircrews briefing room and the passenger counters at the Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad airports, which resulted in delays of local and international flights including flights to Dubai, Manchester, London, Dammam and Abu Dhabi. Those going to Saudi Arabia for Umra also faced humiliation at the airports.

Scores of flights at Karachi airport were delayed, which included seven international and 10 domestic flights.The People’s Unity office bearers also held funeral in absentia for AamirShah at Lahore airport and other outlying air ports. The stranded passengersmurder of the union leader was an unfortunate incident but the union members should not have punished them.