The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has decided to install the acoustic bird repellent system at Pakistan's national airports in a bid to avoid recurring
KARACHI, the largest city of Pakistan and having two ports, which contributes more than 20 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and provides 60pc of its revenue, is again at the receiving end for several reasons.
As some political leaders have rightly highlighted, the approved population figure of 16 million on the basis of the 2017 census is a travesty, to say the least. Pure and simple statistics indicate that even if we assume the population figure of 9.30 million, which was provisionally declared after the 1998 census, Karachi’s population should have been at least around 23.50 million in the year 2017 if we assume a constant annual population growth rate of 5pc for 19 years, which is still a conservative estimate.
The writer is an economist and a Research Fellow at PIDE.
THE news that there is a proposal to mortgage Islamabad’s F-9 park to get a loan led to anger across the country. Although the news has not been confirmed officially, and the prime minister reportedly opposed such a proposal, nobody should be surprised if it proves to be true. It would not be the first instance of its kind. We’ve had many assets mortgaged for loans, a practice that began in 2006 under that crafty banker Mr Shaukat Aziz, and later taken up by yet another wily operator Mr Ishaq Dar.
Passenger With Fake COVID-19 Report Caught at Peshawar Airport
A passenger was briefly detained at the Bacha Khan International Airport, Peshawar for attempting to board a flight by producing a fake negative COVID-19 test report.
The staff intercepted the passenger after getting suspicious about his report and barred him from taking his flight while his report was being verified.
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He was later handed over to the officials of the Ministry of Health after his report was confirmed to be fake, but was released after he submitted a written apology.
A Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) official said that this was the eighth case of its sort at the Peshawar Airport.