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PIA privatization a step forward

By Sardar Khan Niazi For decades, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) symbolized everything that could go wrong with state-owned enterprises: political interference, bloated payrolls, mounting losses, and a collective resignation to failure. Governments came and went and privatization remained a word spoken cautiously. The assumption was simple; PIA was too politically sensitive, too unionized, and too […]