{"id":375474,"date":"2020-09-26T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T05:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375474"},"modified":"2020-09-26T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T07:52:27","slug":"fake-license-scandal-icao-advises-pakistan-to-suspend-issuance-of-new-pilot-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fake-license-scandal-icao-advises-pakistan-to-suspend-issuance-of-new-pilot-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake license scandal: ICAO advises Pakistan to suspend issuance of new pilot licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has advised Pakistan to undertake \u201cimmediate corrective actions\u201d and suspend the issuance of any new pilot licenses in the wake of a scandal over falsified licenses, according to an official and a document seen by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The recommendations from ICAO, a specialized agency of the United Nations that works to ensure safety in international air transport, come days after Pakistan opened a criminal probe into 50 pilots and five civil aviation officials who allegedly helped them falsify credentials to secure pilot licences. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan should improve and strengthen its licensing system to ensure that it takes into account all necessary processes and procedures and prevents inconsistencies and malpractices before new licenses are issued and privileges of suspended licenses are re-established,\u201d said ICAO, in a previously unreported letter to the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has advised Pakistan to undertake \u201cimmediate corrective actions\u201d and suspend the issuance of any new pilot licenses in the wake of a scandal over falsified licenses, according to an official and a document seen by Reuters. The recommendations from ICAO, a specialized agency of the United Nations that works to ensure safety in international air transport, come days after Pakistan opened a criminal probe into 50 pilots and five civil aviation officials who allegedly helped them falsify credentials to secure pilot licences. \u201cPakistan should improve and strengthen its licensing system to ensure that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}