KARACHI, Jan 20: Four employees of Pakistan International Airlines were given prizes for their efficiency and honesty. PIA chairman Tariq Kirmani gave away the prizes to the employees – Abdul Qayyum (passenger services officer), Aleemullah (baggage attendant), Jawed Mateen (aircraft engineer) and Maqbool Ahmed (security guard).

According to the PIA spokesman, Abdul Qayyum and Aleemullah had found a handbag containing $10,240 cash and jewellery worth Rs2.5 million and restored it to the owner, Mrs Rubina Ansari, a passenger.

Maqbool Ahmed had found Rs100,000 belonging to a disembarking passenger who had lost the money somewhere in the flight. He found it from the plane and deposited the same with the PIA cashier on duty.

Jawed Mateen was rewarded for timely rectifying a fault in the Inertial Navigation Unit test station of a Boeing 747 aircraft, thus saving the PIA exchequer of a huge sum of money, he added.