Islamabad, Dec. 25 -- Pakistan's opposition alliance, the Tehreek Tahaffuz Aiyeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP), has rejected the privatisation of the country's flagship global air carrier, the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), calling the airline a national asset that was built collectively over decades with the use of public resourcesRefusing to acknowledge the "hasty and opaque" privatisation process, by what it termed was an "illegal" federal government, the TTAP warned that all such transactions would be "subject to review and scrutiny" in the future, reports The News International.
In a policy statement, it said any attempt to dispose of the airline without public mandate, parliamentary oversight, transparency, and constitutional legitimacy...