The Director General of Civil Aviation (CAA), Khaqan Murtaza, and his colleagues have been charged with two trillion rupees of corruption.
The CAA Officers’ Association sent a letter to Khawaja Saad Rafique and the Aviation Minister on February 6, alleging that Muratza was “unqualified” to occupy public office and expressing fear that his team could do additional harm to the nation. The letter stated that more than 1,300 billion rupees were lost because the airport site was not cleared.
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It also stated that granting phony licenses to the national airline PIA resulted in additional losses, as the CAA could not recover more than Rs 3,000 crores in debt, and the airline chartered at Karachi airport was fined Rs 10,000 crores. In addition, Lahore Walton Airport experienced a loss of Rs 40,000 billion on its Rs 45,000 billion in assets.
CAA officials also said that the prime minister and his cabinet’s explicit directives were disregarded at Benazir Bhutto International Airport. In addition, they accused the DGCAA of improperly registering a Land Cruiser and a Prado.
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More than a hundred employees had to go to court owing to DGCAA’s lack of cooperation. During his term, contract posts were handed to his close friends and family without providing other agencies the confidence to outsource. Additionally, there are allegations that the situation of senior citizens is not addressed seriously.
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In the meantime, DG Murataza denounced the allegations as “without merit” and “contrary to the facts.”
He stated that he was the target of a “campaign” to promote “merit politics” and that “the officials who brought the claims are themselves participating in corrupt acts.” In addition, he stated that the FIA was currently examining “corrupt officials” and vowed to “continue to take action against them.”
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