KARACHI: The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has informed that 166 out of 176 licenses of Pakistani pilots have been validated and that the clearance process of the remaining 10 licenses shall be completed by next week.
The CAA spokesperson on Friday said that 262 pilots had been grounded over the instructions of the Pakistani government over the issue of suspected licenses.
He further said that the federal cabinet members had approved the suspension of licenses of 28 pilots, which will not be able to undertake any flying duties and their licenses stand canceled.
Furthermore, the concerned authorities have commenced an action against 76 pilots. The spokesperson said that the aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar is personally supervising the matter related to the dubious licenses.
Earlier, CAA confirmed the Civil Aviation Authority of Oman (CAAO) that none of the pilot licenses are fake and all CPL/ATPL pilot licenses are genuine and validly issued, making aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan’s statement about the licenses of 262 pilots controversial.
CAA in its letter stated that the federal government immediately took notice and embarked upon the process of verifying the credentials of all licensed pilots through forensic scrutiny when some concerns were raised about the validity of the licenses of some pilots.
On Thursday CAA had confirmed that it had received requests from 10 countries for the verification of licenses of Pakistani pilots.
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