The federal cabinet has set up a committee to investigate financial losses to the national exchequer following former aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan’s 2020 statement in Parliament about pilots with dubious licences, it emerged on Tuesday.

Speaking in the National Assembly in 2020, while talking about a PIA plane crash in May of that year, the then federal minister said that the government had observed that major airlines in other countries did not have such a history of crashes and therefore, started to investigate pilots.

He claimed that almost 40 per cent of pilots had “fake licenses”, adding that of the 860 active pilots, 262 pilots did not even take their exams themselves.

According to a cabinet secretariat notification seen by........

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