Why is PIA staff exempt from baggage screening? This is the end result of selective implementation of law.

The whole society is engaged in criminal activities.

Drugs, Wine-alcohol, Gold, Mobile phone, Illegal passengers, Wine . . . --- A long list.

Who is running PIA? PML-N will finish the job and bury (PIA),what PPP government could not. Sorry state of a country.

Someone may have planted the drugs in her luggage. No one should rush to judgement in this matter.

Great People to Fly With ??????

Wow is there anything left which cause which bring more shame and bad famouse for muslims

Our national character is down the drain. We all want to get rich quick, by hook or crook. FAIL

Another great accomplishments from PIA

Domicile based hiring will result in this.

Great ! Don't lose heart ! Keep it up ! Keep adding to the glory of Pakistan.

Of course the news is not true. PALPA and other organizations are busy drafting rebuttal....Its a conspiracy against God fearing, hard working PIA staff

So these are "the great people to fly with"! Shame, shame

someone.. please take over this country.

PIA crew seems to have taken this as part time business. Need a thorough training of PIA crew on this subject.

To improve the image of airline, immediately place her under suspension and conduct inquiry into the matter within a period of 7 days and take stern action by imposing a maximum penalty of dismissal (nor removal) from service, IF found guilty. In case, she is found innocent, a similar action should be taken against the delinquent, who leveled and tried to implicate her into a false case. Set an example in PIA and restore its glorious past.

@humble : Should it not be " great people to high with"?

Gr8 people to fly with

Wyne stop whining and give a reality check to yourself...! "Not all fingers are the same" @Amjad Wyne

Bichari

There is an immediate need to retrain all PIA staff on service delivery and treating all passengers alike (NO VVIP CULTURE ) Since the PML-N government came into power a lot of political hiring has been done in PIA. One example of many is PIA spokesperson Mashhood Tajwar who has been recruited because of his affiliation with PML-N. And his statements of protecting VVIPs and lying about the matter has proven this.

These type of PIA employees should be sacked from the organization.

If this is true, then please put her enlarged photo in all Newspapers and TV. in the previous 3 cases the photos should have been published. I am sure that this lady has political connections if she had really smuggled narcotics. Milan, Italy is known for their hospitality. She will come out after imprisonment knowing Italian language well and also get Italian Nationality.

They were once great people to fly with....and they still are, with a touch of versatility.

Same Old Same Old. In the Olden days it was the same. In the modern day it is the same. The practice of carrying Drugs, Contraband & Smuggled good by personnel of the National Carrier PIA Spans around almost last 4 decades. Some of them carry by themselves and some get it planted. AND THE JOURNEY TO GET MORE AND MORE AND EVIL OF GREED CONTINUES.

The guy from pmln who is in charge of pia should be questioned.... They all are destroying our nations asset..

When whole society is engaged in criminal activities how can it be abnormal. The criminal activity we all are engaged in is living in a country without paying taxes. We all are on a free ride and will reach there one day but certainly not on time. The root cause of corruption is not genetic it is plane and simple "economics".

@Rukh-e-zehra why do you bring religion in to this ? This is one individual who is alledged to have had drugs on her.

What was the Customs and FIA we're doing at the Lahore Airport, if a ordinary person enters airport car park the authorities ASF and other agencies starts harassing them

PIA fly high !!!

Well knowing italian officials and their tendencies towards Pakistanis lets not jump to the conclusion.

shame on you pia administration

May be PIA is giving less salary that too improperly..So staff have to mend themselves by other earning technics...

Great People to Fly With ..... Once a PIA slogan I was proud of, unfortunately, bad management, bad crew members (not all) made me feel ashamed. I wish PIA may restore its image.

Thanks MNS! What else we should expect from this incompetent and handpicked team!

is there any end to the shame we bring for our country... is our entire country being criminalized. what is wrong with us.. who do we trust...

@Pragmatist where are you living....Mars????

No matter what you do...if you have corrupt system, resultant outcome of every institution will be a product of corruption.

@Rukh-e-zehra What Muslims you are talking about...we all are labelled muslims. We have nothing to do with Islamic teaching...do we????

@Siraj I Syed no one can dare so.. unless have good connections in politics. Infact this sounds a 100% work of some one having political backing.

@Pragmatist Not only PIA Staff has this privilege, infact when ever i fly i find many people being exempted from screening, they dont even que up for checking.

Great people to get high with

There should be random inspection of flight crews luggage done by PIA itself. Thier luggage is never inspected. By the way, do these people get fired after getting caught or just a reprimand and back to work. What happened to the crew with iPhones? Any more news about them?

Its likely as of late I have noticed on long haul flights of PIA, crew both male and female are more interested in talking then serving passengers. I am a regular flier on PIA and service is deteriorating day by day. On Sunday flight from Toronto to Islamabad when asked for coffee before more then one hour, the hostess told me that there in not more coffee in plane! This is the service!

When it comes to PIA nothing surprise me any more

Why all flights witrh origin of Lahore have this problem ? Considering our society, it sounds too good to be true. Who knows this woman has been framed/used by someone ? very typical of how drug traders operate in South American countries. Khuda iss mulq ki awaam per reham keray.. this place is doomed.

What kind of drugs? Pain killers? Don't let people speculate and come up with their own conclusion.

Blame America!!!

Is there any positive, constructive, productive news come out from Pakistan or even Muslim world?

PIA staff should not be exempt from baggage screening. I know of much misdeeds done by such staff, one of my relatives in London caught a PIA hostess stealing clothes. To take back to Pakistan, the sooner PIA is privatized the sooner these problems will be resolved.

@Nadeem K . Airline crew no matter PIA or foreign is not at all exempted from any baggage examination, search, or examination. You may have seen the stupid act of PIA staff when the crew was held at Lahore Airport for carrying stuff which is not legally allowed to the crew members. Evrywhere in the world there are two channels, GREEN and RED and no matter who adopts which channel Customs has the authority to stop, question, examine, seize and detain if anything is found in violation of law. It may be borne in mind that Crew members do have any privilige at par with any passenger, secondly they have to sign a declaration before Customs at the time of departure and present the same on arivals, so nothing should contradict. Its shame on the part of individual and not the instituion, but the management should look into it very deeply. The question also arises that what ASF and ANF was doing when she passed all the channels at Lahore Airport, its a big question?