Pakistain's civil aviation ministry grounded 262 pilots for "dubious" qualifications last month, prompted by a preliminary report into an airliner crash in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
in May that found the pilots had failed to follow standard procedures and disregarded alarms.
That crash killed 97 passengers and crew.
The ministry had said earlier that Pakistain has a total of 860 pilots, 107 of whom work for foreign airlines, but updated on Thursday in a statement that it had received requests from 10 countries for validation of 176 pilots.
It said 166 of them have been validated by Pakistain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) as "genuine and certified" and the remaining 10 will have their process completed by next week.
The 10 countries where these pilots are employed included United Arab Emirates,
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire..., Malaysia, Vietnam, Bahrain, Æthiopia, Hong Kong, Oman, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and Kuwait, the ministry said. It said the validation had been conveyed to the respective countries.
Out of the 262 grounded pilots, the statement said, the licenses for 28 pilots have been cancelled, and a process of verification for another 76 was underway.
The scandal has prompted the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to suspended two Pak airlines' authorisation to fly to the bloc for six months over safety failure.
Britannia and the United States have also revoked landing rights for Pakistain International Airlines (PIA), and various global safety boards have downgraded the national carrier's rating over aviation safety risks.