ISLAMABAD: All Major Airports across Pakistan to be outsourced tointernational firms, Federal Minister for Information and BroadcastingShibli Faraz Tuesday had said.
Federal cabinet had formed a special committee to prepare a legal frameworkby June 30 to outsource country’s major airports to bring them on par withinternational standards.
Briefing journalists here about the federal cabinet decisions, taken underthe chairmanship of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the minister said thegovernment was looking for some international firm with rich experience ofoperating and managing airports. He said the cabinet was informed that somefirms had already evinced interest in the matter.
He said a legal framework had to be clarified before the tendering processstarted and, to this effect, a committee, to be headed by Aviation MinisterGhulamSarwar Khan, would fast track the process.
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Its members include Special Assistant to Prime Minister on OverseasPakistanis Zulfiqar Bukhari, the chairperson of the Board of Investment(BoI) and Adviser on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan and Adviser onCommerce, Trade and Industry Abdul Razak Dawood.
About job security of employees working at airports in case of theiroutsourcing, he said the government, which came to power on the basis ofvotes of masses, would like to ensure none was deprived of his job ratherthere could be more job opportunities.
