Apropos your excellent analysis titled ‘PIA Revival a Dream Sans Surgical Cleansing of Top Executives’ in your issue dated June 30. PM Nawaz Sharif’s administration faces a gigantic task to drastically cut down crippling electricity power shortage, restoring Railways, PIA, CAA, PSM, OGRA etc to level of self sustaining units, instead of a burden on national exchequer. PIA in spite of a lucrative potential market of ethnic Pakistanis has collapsed because it was subjected to systematic plunder, by thoroughly corrupt cronies. It was further destroyed by providing jobs to retired officers of uniformed services, unqualified sons of employees and political elite, to do as they please and they indulged in criminal abuse of its revenues, procurement division, selling jobs to highest bidders. PIA also offered its routes, without any financial benefits to the airline, making the executive corridors hostage to mediocrity and men whose indiscipline knew no limits, with a senior executive of the rank of Deputy MD dancing like a clown with a whiskey glass balanced on his head in the presence of the MD. PIA’s family silver, Hotel Roosevelt and Hotel Scribe have been victims of endless abuse initiated by Aslam R Khan, whose prodigy continues with rape of this profitable expensive real estate, now facing burden of huge debts because of greed of these men and failure of successive governments and an irresponsible Board Of Directors, which failed to protect the financial interests of tax payers.PIA and CAA became a tool in the hands of those who wanted to destroy it and launch their own airlines, or benefit those that are already in existence. It is hoped that PML-N would not allow vested interests with a very clear conflict of interest, who own and run an airline, which stands to benefit from PIA’s possible shutdown. Such individuals should have no role in recommending persons to run PIA, nor should they participate in meetings convened to plan strategy to restructure the national airline, or the regulating authority CAA. The move to separate PIA and CAA from intervention of MOD is a very wise decision, but this purpose would be defeated if other vested interests are allowed to step in.SHAHZAD KHALIL, Sialkot, June 30.