KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) resumed its domestic and international flight operations after employees ended their two week long strike spurred by plans to privatise the national carrier.
Pakistan’s airports have been enmeshed in chaos nationwide since the strike kicked off that grounded international and domestic flights and left thousands of passengers stranded.
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Last week, two employees were killed and several others wounded at Karachi’s international airport when clashes broke out between security forces and staff.
“We are calling off the strike today,” Sohail Baloch, the chairman of PIA’s joint action committee of employees, told a press conference in Karachi on Tuesday.
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Baloch also encouraged his colleagues to return to their jobs with “full commitment and spirit”.
He said his team was set to travel to Lahore on Tuesday night to hold talks with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the brother of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
A PIA spokesman said that more than 50 percent of the carrier’s operations were restored on Tuesday. – Samaa/AFP
PIA resumes flight operations as workers end strike
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