Civil Aviation Minister
While addressing a press conference in
The federal minister said that on the directives of Prime Minister
He said that of the eight deceased crew members, the bodies of seven have been handed over to their heirs.
Sarwar said that the aircraft's voice box and data box has been handed over to the French probe team sent by Airbus for further investigations and hopefully, within a week, the team would brief the ministry on the initial findings.
He said that the full report of the plane crash might take four to six months. The provisional report, however, would be made public by
"We are striving for a transparent, fair and impartial inquiry regarding the regretful incident," said the aviation minister.
Speaking about the compensation given to the victims' families, Sarwar said about
"Three maids were critically burnt and endured serious injures in the incident. One of them, unfortunately passed away. Compensations have also been allotted for the injured and deceased residents of the crash site," he said.
The minister went on to add that for the time being, the affected families have been provided accommodation at the PIA hotel.
Stressing that maximum facilitation is being provided to the victims' families, the aviation minister stated that the brother of deceased pilot
The minister also discussed the repatriation of Pakistanis stranded abroad due to coronavirus and international travel restrictions imposed across the world. He said that the operation to bring back 34,000 Pakistanis stranded abroad will continue till
"After
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