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By Masood Sattar Khan (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Chinese Ambassador in Pakistan, Yao Jing, through a video session, extended Eid greeting to all Muslim overseas and the Chinese living in Pakistan besides offering condolences on PIA plane crash. The participants included the top officials of the Rawalpindi Chinese Association, the Gilgit-Baltistan Chinese Association, the Pakistan Chinese Youth Overseas Chinese Association and the Pakistan Overseas Chinese Association. Ambassador Yao Jing introduced the relevant situation of China-Pakistan anti-epidemic cooperation.  He pointed out that in the early stage of China’s epidemic prevention and control, Pakistan had actively donated anti-epidemic materials to China.  “After the outbreak epidemic in Pakistan, China donated a large volume of anti-epidemic materials to Pakistan and sent a number of anti-epidemic medical expert groups to assist Pakistan in anti-epidemic drive,” he narrated.  “The two countries have...

By Masood Sattar Khan (Pakistan News & Features Services)   The cockpit voice recorder of the crashed PIA plane has yet not been recovered from the debris scattered on narrow lanes of the crash site located in the Karachi’s densely populated area of Model Colony in the close proximity of airport.  The black box of the plane, which crashed on May 22, has however been retrieved and sent to the Airbus headquarters in France for decoding, the aviation sources disclosed.  A spokesman of the national carrier has appealed to the people that if they found any part of the crashed plane they should handover the same to the concerned authorities.  The 11-member Airbus investigating team, having reached Karachi, will resume their investigation by visiting the crash site on May 27.  The French team, on May 26, inspected the damaged houses, debris and the runway which the captain of the ill-fated plane, Sajjad Gul, reportedly used for an abortive landing. The team checked...

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The PIA Chief has assured the PIA's retired employees  that their pension will be increased in near future' This was disclosed by General Secretary PIA Retired Employees Association  (PIAREA) while addressing the  General Body meeting of the association. He informed the members of some of the PIAREA achievements gained after  a long struggle which included increase in PIA pension in 2013, free medical  facilities for disabled sons/daughters of Retirees, abolition of Federal Excise  Duty (FED) on free tickets to issued to Retirees, extension of medical facilities etc.  He said successful efforts were made against proposed  privatization of PIA, Earlier, he informed that no one will be appointed as Association's office-bearer  for whole of life in future whereas efforts while efforts will continue to seek more facilities for retired employees....

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Chairman, Election Commission of the PIA Retired Employees Association (PIAREA), Najamul Ghani, has announced the final list of the candidates upon the completion of the election procedure.  According to the notification of the new office bearers of the PIAREA, having been elected unopposed for a term of three years, M Yunus Kakakhel will be the President and Syed Tahir Hasan will be the General Secretary.  Chaudhry Muhammad Azam has elected as the Senior Vice President, Parvez Farid, Muhammad Aslam Malik and Mohammad Khan Sial are the three Vice Presidents while Shaikh Abdul Majeed has been elected as the Organizing Secretary. Abdul Rahman Khilji, Nisar Ahmed and Muhammad Yousuf have been elected to the posts of Finance Secretary, Welfare Secretary and Joint Secretary respectively.  The PIA Retired Employees Association (PIAREA) is a registered body of retired and ex-employees of al...