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- May 11, 2024
- Kainat Shakeel
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The six-year-old boy’s body was tragically left behind at the airport in Islamabad on Friday by a PIA flight from Skardu to Islamabad. His parents were not informed of the awful error and carried on with their travel. When the parents of the deceased youngster learned that their son’s body had been left behind in Islamabad, they were so upset that they passed out at the Skardu airport. Mujtaba, a resident of Kharmang district’s Katshi village, was sent to Rawalpindi for treatment a month ago after receiving a tumor diagnosis at a Skardu hospital. After being brought to Rawalpindi by his mother and father, Muhammad Askari, he spent weeks receiving care at Benazir Bhutto Hospital. On Thursday, Mujtaba died in the hospital.
The parents decided to use a PIA airplane on Friday to transfer their child’s remains to their hometown of Katshi for burial, as the heat made it impractical for them to go by car from Islamabad to Skardu, which would have taken 24 hours. On Friday morning, the parents of the deceased youngster and an additional family member verified their tickets for flight PK-451 from Islamabad to Skardu. At six in the morning, they transported the body to Islamabad airport, finished the shipping process for it, paid the airline, and complied with all SOPs. A family member of the slain youngster named Ibrahim Asadi informed Dawn that the body was to be taken from Islamabad to Skardu at 9 a.m. along with the parents.
According to him, the flight departed Islamabad at 1 pm after a four-hour delay. The parents were notified that the body was inadvertently left behind at the Islamabad airport and was not placed into the aircraft when they arrived at Skardu airport at 2:00 pm. Parents were horrified and began crying upon hearing the news, and the boy’s mother and father passed out at the airport, causing sadness and indignation. In addition, the boy’s family members who were waiting to collect the body assembled in the airport lounge and began to demonstrate against the PIA management’s carelessness. It went on for three hours. While on duty at Skardu airport, representatives from the PIA, Civil Aviation Authority, and other departments attempted to reassure the boy’s parents and relatives and acknowledged their error.
They promised the parents that the body would be returned on Saturday or today. The business that manages cargo at the airport is accountable for failing to load the body, according to PIA authorities, who also assured the parents that it will face consequences for its carelessness. Parents and other family members of the boy screamed anti-PIA slogans. They claimed that although the impoverished family had paid more for the remains to be transported by PIA flight, the airline had engaged in grave negligence. They urged the government to prosecute the individuals in charge of the carelessness. Another of the boy’s relatives, Yousaf Kamal, said that the body had been purposefully left off the aircraft.
He stated that on Friday, Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Engineer Amir Muqam was supposed to go from Islamabad to Gilgit. He further mentioned that the inclement weather prevented the PIA flight from Islamabad to Gilgit from operating. The federal minister, he claimed, had rearranged his schedule, choosing instead to travel to Skardu and hold up the passengers. According to him, the minister had to be accommodated, thus the flight that was supposed to leave Islamabad at 9 a.m. was postponed until 1 p.m., leaving the body at the airport.