Islamabad (HRNW): Pakistan’s parliament has adopted a law that will convert the cash-strapped national airline into a limited company but bar the government from giving up its management control, officials said on Tuesday.
The passage of the law, which blocks selling off a majority share in Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), late on Monday, was a major setback for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who made the privatisation of the company a top goal when he came to power in 2013.
The privatization of 68 state-owned companies, which include loss-making enterprises like PIA and Pakistan Steel Mills, is also a major element in a $6.7 billion IMF package that helped Pakistan stave off a default in 2013.
The government had struggled to meet its deadline to sell PIA, which has accumulated losses of more than $3 billion, after a delay of many months in amending a 1956 law that barred it from being privately owned.
After months of legal wrangling between government.
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