ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: The government on Monday assured lawmakers in the Senate that there was no plan to bifurcate or privatise the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). Earlier, speaking on a call-attention notice, Leader of Opposition Mian Raza Rabbani said that according to media reports the CAA had contracted without prior tenders a Dubai-based firm, M/s Meckenzi, at $0.5 million to give suggestions to the authority on its bifurcation plan.
The treasury side was unusually active to defend the minister of state for defence Khalid Lund who gave a brief statement confining to the status of the CAA without going into the reports about giving contract to a foreign firm for its bifurcation.
Leader of the house Wasim Sajjad and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Kamil Ali Agha insisted that the government’s reply was complete and comprehensive.
Mr Rabbani claimed that the government was intending to privatise one portion of the bifurcated CAA to a private party.
He said the report called “Reorienting of the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority” was meant to bifurcate the real estate of the authority in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad, which was estimated to have been developed only up to $340 million worth as against its capacity of development into $1.52 billion.
