Minister of Railways and Aviation Khawaja Saad Rafique has said that outsourcing something does not mean selling or pledging it. Addressing a press conference, he said that Islamabad Airport was going to be outsourced and it’s our guarantee that no employee would be deprived of jobs.
He said Islamabad Airport would be outsourced for 15 years and next we would do the same at the Lahore and Karachi airports as well. The minister said that we were left behind but the entire world had done it. Our airports should be modernized, he emphasized. Due to the statement of a personality, he said the PIA had been facing Rs70 billion loss annually. He said flights from UK would be launched soon.—NNI
