<p>Lahore: Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday said two Pakistani pilots served PIA, the national flag career, for several years on fake degrees.</p>.<p>Kashan Aijaz Dodhy and Mohsin Ali, who were inducted into <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/pakistan">Pakistan </a>International Airlines (PIA) in 1995 and 2006, respectively, were booked in 2022 after an audit revealed a good number of PIA employees were appointed based on fake degrees.</p>.<p>During the investigation, the FIA found the degrees of both pilots fake.</p>.US expresses concern over sentencing of 25 civilians by Pakistan military court.<p>Dodhy and Ali quit the PIA in 2019 and 2014, respectively.</p>.<p>A case was initiated against both pilots, air hostess Nazia Naheed, and data operator Arif Tarar for getting jobs in PIA with fake degrees.</p>.<p>"All four on Monday confessed to furnishing fake degrees to get appointed or promoted in the PIA before the special court of FIA," an official said.</p>.<p>The accused also confessed to their crimes in their statements.</p>.<p>Judge Tanveer Ahmad Sheikh ordered the imprisonment of all of them “till the rising of the court” and a fine of different amounts.</p>.<p>In 2020, then aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, bringing humiliation to the country, disclosed that Pakistani pilots had "dubious licences".</p>.<p>He alleged that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) recruited 658 employees, including pilots and engineers, with fake academic degrees and dubious licences between 2008 and 2018.</p>.<p>The minister’s statement alerted the international aviation agency and several foreign airlines grounded Pakistani-origin pilots.</p>.<p>The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and UK authorities also stopped the PIA from flying to Europe.</p>
<p>Lahore: Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday said two Pakistani pilots served PIA, the national flag career, for several years on fake degrees.</p>.<p>Kashan Aijaz Dodhy and Mohsin Ali, who were inducted into <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/pakistan">Pakistan </a>International Airlines (PIA) in 1995 and 2006, respectively, were booked in 2022 after an audit revealed a good number of PIA employees were appointed based on fake degrees.</p>.<p>During the investigation, the FIA found the degrees of both pilots fake.</p>.US expresses concern over sentencing of 25 civilians by Pakistan military court.<p>Dodhy and Ali quit the PIA in 2019 and 2014, respectively.</p>.<p>A case was initiated against both pilots, air hostess Nazia Naheed, and data operator Arif Tarar for getting jobs in PIA with fake degrees.</p>.<p>"All four on Monday confessed to furnishing fake degrees to get appointed or promoted in the PIA before the special court of FIA," an official said.</p>.<p>The accused also confessed to their crimes in their statements.</p>.<p>Judge Tanveer Ahmad Sheikh ordered the imprisonment of all of them “till the rising of the court” and a fine of different amounts.</p>.<p>In 2020, then aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, bringing humiliation to the country, disclosed that Pakistani pilots had "dubious licences".</p>.<p>He alleged that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) recruited 658 employees, including pilots and engineers, with fake academic degrees and dubious licences between 2008 and 2018.</p>.<p>The minister’s statement alerted the international aviation agency and several foreign airlines grounded Pakistani-origin pilots.</p>.<p>The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and UK authorities also stopped the PIA from flying to Europe.</p>