Fortunate are those semi- government organisations whose unions are manned by dedicated, honest and hardworking persons. Those labour unions which are run by opportunists, financially corrupt and black mailers are a curse for the people whom they represent as well as for the government.
There might be many reasons for the pitiable conditions of Pakistan steel mills, railways and the PIA but let us admit one of the reason why they have fallen on bad days is that they were wronged by their unions also to a great extent.
Let us cite PIA’s example. Never a day goes by when one scandal or the other associated with its name doesn’t come in the media. It has become a laughing stock of the people. The recent seizure of a big quantity of narcotics at Heathrow by the British police from a PIA flight which had flown into London from Islamabad had certainly brought a very bad name to this country .
Let us hope that the PIA’s higher ups would bring to book those involved in this heroin trafficking to London and an example would be made of them. The PIA must inform the people as to what action was taken by it against the pilot who had been caught red handed dead drunk at Manchester airport a couple of months back and was about to fly a PIA aircraft to Lahore in the inebriated state of mind. Likewise , it must inform the taxpayers of the action taken by it against the pilot of Islamabad – bound PIA flight who handed over the controls of the plane to an under training pilot as soon as he took off from Heathrow and himself went to sleep for two hours in the passengers’ Compartment.
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