CAA’s official response on fake license scandal

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Islamabad: Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) has received request from 10 countries namely United Arab Emirates (UAE), Turkey, Malaysia, Vietnam, Bahrain, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Oman , Qatar, Kuwait for validation of credentials of 176 Pakistani pilots.

According to the details, 166 of these have been validated as genuine and certified by the PCAA as having no anomaly. Process for the remaining 10 shall be concluded by next week. Same information has been communicated to respective countries.

Total of 262 pilots were identified as possesing suspicious flying license by the Board of Inquiry and grounded immediately after identification on the instructions of Government of Pakistan. Cabinet has revoked the license of 28 pilots, out of these 262 pilots. These 28 pilots will not be able to undertake any flying duties. These 28 licenses were revoked after following proper legal procedures which also involved personal hearings afforded to individual pilots. The matter was twice deliberated by the cabinet before the decision.

The process of verification regarding 76 pilots has been initiated while the processing of remiaining 158 will be initiated shortly as per formal down procedures.

The entire process of scritiny and validation followed by necessary disciplinary action is being closely monitored and personally supervised by Honourable Minister of Aviation Mr Ghulam Sarwar Khan.

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