ISLAMABAD – Adviser to the Prime Minister on Aviation Sardar Mehtab Abbasion Tuesday ruled out any possibility of the national flag carrier’sprivatisation before elections.

Presenting a report before the Senate on PIA’s progress, Abbasi saidfinalising the privatisation of the airlines during the tenure of theincumbent government was quite impossible.

He said he was not seeing any serious effort on the part of the governmentto privatise PIA.

“The government is about to complete its tenure, whereas it is quiteimpossible to complete the process of privatisation within next two monthsas the process takes years to be completed,” he elaborated.

The adviser said the PIA employees and administration were striving hard torestore the airline’s past glory.

“The PIA administration has been told not to accept any external pressure,”he said, without elaborating. He added that the issue of PIA’sprivatisation has created unrest among the employees.

He further said that PIA is a commercial company and commercialinstitutions follow their own rules and regulations.