KARACHI: Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Director General Air Marshal (ret) Muhammad Yousaf has been sacked by the government over slow pace of construction work for completion of projects.
The CAA DG was accused of not expediting work on projects like construction of the new Islamabad airport in timely manner.
According to the notification, a number of development projects like expansion and renovation of Peshawar, Quetta, Faisalabad and Lahore airports was to be undertaken on fast track as per vision the instruction of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. However, the work on these projects has not started as yet, it said.
“Other projects like completion of new Islamabad airport and installation of instrument landing system to enable aircraft to land in fog also got inordinately delayed due to failure of top management to take stern action against the non-performing officials.”
While it has not been officially communicated, but officials say that Additional Secretary Aviation Division Amjad Ali Toor has been given interim charge as DG CAA.
