The Guardian reports:
Pakistan’s prime minister has ordered an investigation after the country’s national airline released an advert that drew accusations that it evoked imagery of the 9/11 attacks.
The advert was released by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) last week to celebrate the resumption of flights to Paris, which had been suspended for four years over safety concerns about its pilots.But the PR campaign was soon criticised for an uncomfortable resemblance to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, when planes struck the twin towers in New York. Pakistan is not without its links to the September 11 bombings. Osama bin Laden, the head of al-Qaida who carried out the attacks, was found to have been hiding in Pakistan before being killed by US forces in 2011.
Read the full article. The airline remains banned by the UK and United States due to the revelation that one-third of its pilots had cheated on their exams. In 2017, airline employees sacrificed a goat on the tarmac for “good luck.”
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