ISLAMABAD, May 14: This is with reference to a news item published in Dawn on May 13 “PIA fare hike on foreign routes” in which it was said that PIA’s spokesman Capt Hasan Jaferi was not available for “comments, says a PIA press release.

According to the press release neither Capt Jaferi nor any one of his staff in his office received any call from Dawn correspondent. On Friday evening Capt Jaferi and his staff were in the office till 8.30pm.

It is also clarified that there was no call received by the spokesman on his mobile phone, the press release said.

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