ZARDARI’S CORRUPTION NOW TAKING HUMAN LIVES :ZARDARI GOVT APPROVED BHOJA AIRLINES 28 YEAR OLD BOEING 737 FLYING COFFIN CRASHES:REHMAN MALIK AND KAIRA DO DAMAGE CONTROL. MQM MAKES POLITICAL MILEAGE OUT OF DISASTER
Zardari Governments coruption in Pakistan leads to a crash of a Bhoja Airlines “Flying Coffin.” Zardari Govt approved the license to operate to sub-standard Bhoja Airlines. This airline is using 5 Boeing 737 planes, which are 28 years old and were deemed as non-flyable. Pakistan Civil Aviation through either incompetance or possible bribery approved the license to operate to Bhoja Airlines. PIA had expressed reservations about approving licenses to private airlines, run by government favorites or those who have puportedly “bribed,” the corrupt Pakistan Government.
MQM VULTURES MAKE POLITICAL MILEAGE
All the opportunists vultures like MQM are out at Karachi Airport to get political mileage out of Pakistan’s human tragedy. Altaf Hussain, the carrion-eating vulture had his minions show up in front of media to provide hypocritical and false sympathy to the suffering families.
Bhoja Air is a small Karachi-based airline that began operating in 1993. It had suspended flights in 2001 because of financial troubles and had resumed operations in March.
The incident bore similarities to the July 28, 2010, crash of an Airblue passenger jet that killed all 152 people aboard. That aircraft was also flying from Karachi to the Pakistani capital, and was moving through heavy fog and rain when it slammed into a forested ridge outside Islamabad. The crash was believed to be the worst domestic aviation disaster in Pakistan’s history.
Bhoja Airlines and several others which operate in Pakistan received licences to operate by the current PPP government. These new airlines are using superannuated aircrafts, which are literally “flying coffins.” the corruption of Zardari government is now taking lives of ordinary Pakistani citizens. Also, Pakistan Civil Aviation is infested with corrupt “sifarishis,” employees, who are certifying “Flying Coffins,” for air service.
As a cherry on this disastrous cake, Zardari let loose Rehman Malik and Kaira to do damage control.
Zardari has actually previously been convicted of corruption, and has spent a total of eight years in jail, and there are still outstanding indictments that are creating tensions in the National Assembly today. An article in the New York Times entitled House of Graft: Tracing the Bhutto Millions, spells out in uncomfortable detail the shadowy world of the Bhutto-Zardari fortunes. Documents offer an extraordinarily revealing look at high-level corruption in Pakistan, “a nation so poor that perhaps 70 percent of its 130 million people are illiterate, and millions have no proper shelter, no schools, no hospitals, not even safe drinking water.”
Among the deals that have come to light are a $200 million deal with French military contractor Dassault Aviation, which fell apart only after Bhutto’s government was dismissed; a leading Swiss company paid millions of dollars into offshore companies controlled by Zardari and Bhutto’s mother Nusrat; a gold bullion dealer in the Middle East apparently paid $1 million into a Zardari bank account.
There’s also evidence that the family amassed more than $1.5 billion in illicit profits through kickbacks in virtually every sphere of government activity, with accounts and transactions managed by a network of Western friends, lawyers and property companies.
Among the transactions Zardari exploited were defense contracts, power plant projects, the privatization of state owned industries; the awarding of broadcast licenses; the granting of an export monopoly for the country’s huge rice harvest; the purchase of planes for Pakistan International Airlines; the assignment of textile export quotas; the granting of oil and gas permits; authorization of sugar mills and the sale of government lands.
In 1993, he was convicted of money laundering, and in a separate case he and 128 others were indicted for conspiracy to murder his wife’s brother, Murtaza Bhutto. His release, re-arrest and the release again led to his exile in Dubai in 2005. Zardari has spent several years in jail, from 1997 and again from 1999 when he was sentenced over his connection to a Swiss company that had been hired to investigate corruption in the collection of customs duties.
PIA concerned over ‘permission’ granted to Indus Air by CAA
Karachi: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has expressed reservations over permission granted to a new private airline, Indus Airline, to operate passenger flights by Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Sources told The News Tribe that Civil Aviation Authorities (CAA) has recently permitted two new airlines, Indus Airline and Pearl Airline, to operate flight from Pakistan’s airports.
They said that the national flag carrier had expressed reservations over the permission granted to Indus Airline, arguing that this would further deteriorate the ailing financial health of the airline.
The sources said that the PIA management had conveyed its concerns to CAA through a letter.
The PIA authorities were of the view that operation of Indus Airline would cause technical as well as financial problems to national flag carrier.
The sources further said that Indus Airline had also applied for allotment of offices and hanger. Space for office of the airline has been approved while application for hanger is in process, they added.
Pakistan Air Crash: Passenger Plane Crashes Near Islamabad
A passenger plane carrying 127 people has crashed into a residential area on its approach to Islamabad International Airport in Pakistan.
The Bhoja Air Boeing 737, flight BHO-213, was descending for landing when the incident happened as it flew from Karachi.
Pakistan’s Defence Minister said that the plane burst into flames a few miles from the airport near Chaklala, Rawalpindi, at around 18:40 local time.
There were 118 passengers and nine crew on-board.
Pakistani Police have said there is ‘no chance’ of any survivors.
Karachi and Islamabad airports have been besieged with distraught relatives of those on board.
The plane came down near a residential complex but it is unclear if there were any casualties on the ground.
Rescue teams are at the scene and emergency official Saifur Rehman said: “We can see the plane’s wreckage is on fire and we are trying to extinguish it. We are looking for survivors.”
Local TV footage shows people searching by torchlight amongst mangled wreckage.
The cause is unknown but heavy rain was reported in the area at the time of the crash.
Bhoja Air had previously stopped operating in 2001 due to financial difficulties and had only started operating again last month.
Pakistan’s worst air disaster happened only last July when a passenger plane crashed killing all 152 people on board.
THE 2010 AIR CRASH
Pakistan’s worst ever air crash kills 152
A Pakistani passenger jet crashed in bad weather today killing all 152 people on board in the country’s worst ever air accident.
The morning Airblue flight from Karachi was preparing to land when it went down in the fog-shrouded Margalla Hills to the north of Islamabad.
Rescue workers struggled to reach the crash site, trekking through forests made boggy by days of monsoon rain.
Officials said air traffic control had diverted the plane on its final approach, owing to rain and thick cloud – outside the normal route for aircraft flying from Karachi.
Rehman Malik, the country’s Interior Minister, said: “It’s a tragic, tragic accident. There will be a full investigation and it’s too early to say what caused the crash but the weather was not good.”
A plume of smoke rising into the low cloud from the forested hills could be seen from the Pakistani capital. Some onlookers scrambled past police cordons to climb into the hills where they helped rescuers digging among the wreckage with their bare hands.
Pakistan is in the grip of monsoon season and Wednesday brought heavy rain and low cloud to the Himalayan foothills around Islamabad.
Experienced pilots say the craggy hills and unpredictable wind patterns make landing awkward even in good weather. An earlier flight operated by Pakistan International Airlines had been diverted to Lahore on Wednesday.
Witnesses said the ill-fated Airbus A321 looked to be in difficulty as it approached the city.
“I wondered why the plane wasn’t flying higher as it was flying towards the hill,” said Anjum Rahman, who saw the plane from the window of her home. “Then within three or four minutes I heard a loud explosion.”
Relatives of the missing gathered at Islamabad airport and the city’s main hospitals desperate for word of their loved ones as rumours of survivors circulated.
Crowds clustered around ambulances as they began arriving at PakistanInstitute of Medical Sciences in the early afternoon.
Hope gradually faded as it became clear they were carrying badly charred bodies rather than survivors.
Huma Shahid said she was waiting for news of a cousin who was returning from Karachi where he had been on business.
“We came because we heard there were survivors – first five, then 45,” she said. “But so far nothing. People are getting angry,” she said.
It was not until late afternoon that rescue workers said they had accounted for all the passengers and no one had survived.
Airblue was set up in 2004, flying to the UK and Middle East as well as operating domestic services. Its modern fleet has a good safety record and its reputation for service has attracted many business travellers away from state-owned PIA.
The deadliest civilian plane crash involving a Pakistani jet outside the country was a PIA Airbus A300 that crashed into a cloud-covered hillside on its approach to the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, killing 167 people in September 1992.
Posted: 04/20/2012 11:09 am Updated: 04/20/2012 12:37 pm