Outsourcing does not mean selling or pledging of anything: Saad Rafique

Outsourcing does not mean selling or pledging of anything: Saad Rafique

Pakistan

Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi airports will be outsourced

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Minister of Railways and Aviation Khawaja Saad Rafique has said that outsourcing something does not mean selling or pledging it.

Addressing a press conference, he said that Islamabad Airport was going to be outsourced and it’s our guarantee that no employee would be deprived of jobs.

He said Islamabad Airport would be outsourced for 15 years and next we would do the same at the Lahore and Karachi airports as well.

The minister said that we were left behind but the entire world had done it. Our airports should be modernized, he emphasized.

Due to the statement of a personality, he said the PIA had been facing Rs70 billion loss annually. He said flights from UK would be launched soon.

The aviation minister said that lot of tasks are yet to be done in the railway and we are going to bring private investment in the railway production unit. As many as 400 acres of land has been acquired in Gwadar, he added.