Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan presented the preliminary report on the PIA plane crash before the National Assembly on Wednesday, where he accused the pilots of being ‘over confident’.
Based on the initial report, Khan held the pilot, the cabin crew, and the Air Traffic Control (ATC) responsible for the plane crash, which resulted in the deaths of 97 out of 99 persons on board the flight.
“The pilot and the ATC did not follow the procedure. The plane was 100 per cent okay,” said the minister, eliminating the possibility of technical faults with the aircraft.
Khan added that the pilots were not “focused” because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“In the last half hour, the pilots’ discussion was about coronavirus, they were not focused as their families were affected,” said the minister, adding that the pilot and co-pilot were both fit and experienced.
The National Assembly has passed a resolution making it mandatory to write Khatam ul Nabiyeen (the Last Prophet) along with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)’s name. The resolution was passed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) minister Muhammad Ali Khan. In a tweet, the minister revealed that the resolution was unanimously passed and was supported by both the opposition as well as minorities. Ali Khan’s
The Karachi police has arrested a nine-year-old suspected car thief after several days of efforts. A nine-year-old child stole a car from Karachi’s Khayaban-e-Mujahid out of desperation to drive a car. Upon being informed, the Darakhshan police chased him and arrested from Sea View area. The car thief has been identified as Bilal and hailed from Machar colony, said police.
Mona Kattan, co-founder of cosmetic brand Huda Beauty took to Instagram excitedly as she shared a video of the mango crates, delivered from Pakistan. The mangoes were sent to her by Asif Ali Zardari and family especially from their farms in Tando Allahayar. Mona thanked Zardari and children for sending love-filled mangoes and expressed how happy she is.
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane crash on May 22nd in Karachi took place due to human errors, said the preliminary investigation report submitted to the Aviation Division in a high level meeting on Monday. The negligence of both the cockpit crew as well as the air control tower caused the accident and there was apparently no technical fault.
Controversial religious scholar Mufti Abdul Qavi has said that the Islamabad-based US blogger, Cynthia Ritchie requested him ‘a number of times’ for a meeting but he refused all the invitations. According to news report of local Urdu daily, Mufti Qavi said that numerous politicians from Punjab are also closely associated with Cynthia but he will reveal details at the right time.
Widely respected religious scholar and orator Allama Talib Jauhari passed away at a private hospital on Sunday night after a long illness. The well-known Shia scholar had been under treatment at the intensive care unit of the hospital for the past 15 days. Allama Jauhari commanded respect because he was a class fellow of the widely revered scholar Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani.
Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul Wazir has baffled social media after giving a peculiar definition of COVID-19. “COVID-19 means that it has 19 points that can be applied in any country based on respective immunity levels,” she said during a TV show. Gul soon became center of social media user’s content for memes, with Twitterati excessively sharing her video.
Pakistan partially allowed international flights to resume on Sunday, in order to bring back more citizens stranded in other countries because of the coronavirus. Flight operation were suspended almost three months ago in order to curb the spread of the disease. Now the government has reopened 25% of the country’s airspace so that the citizens stuck abroad could return.
Several statistical models, official statements, leaked government documents, and interviews with people in various cities suggest that the number of Coronavirus patients and deaths in Pakistan are grossly under-reported. The actual numbers will be two to three times more than the reported number and health experts worry the lack of accuracy in data collection was misleading people and creating apathy about the disease.