{"id":64933,"date":"2020-05-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=64933"},"modified":"2020-04-30T14:40:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T09:40:01","slug":"pia-essential-services-act-repatriation-rescue-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-essential-services-act-repatriation-rescue-evacuation.html","title":{"rendered":"Essential Services Act imposed to facilitate PIA in citizen repatriation, evacuation operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rawalpindi: The government has imposed the Essential Services (Maintenance) Act, 1952 to facilitate the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation Limited (PIA) in its citizen repatriation and evacuation operations amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to a news report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-revise-fare-prices-stranded-pakistanis-pandemic-lockdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PIA to revise fare prices for stranded Pakistanis amid pandemic lockdown<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This act will allow PIA to rescue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/flight-operations-to-bring-stranded-pakistanis-home-starts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repatriate<\/a>, and evacuate Pakistanis and foreigners stranded in various countries, and has been put in immediate effect for the next six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government put this law into action as numerous Pakistanis are still stranded in various countries with limited resources and expired visas, putting them in a precarious position. Therefore, the authorities placed PIA under the relevant act, with immediate effect, for repatriation efforts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/web-portal-set-up-stranded-pakistanis-view-flight-schedules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Web portal set up for stranded Pakistanis to view flight schedules<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A PIA spokesperson revealed that the airline has already brought back more than 27,000 people, despite the risks involved. He avowed that the airline would continue these services till every stranded Pakistani is repatriated. Additionally, he stated that this repatriation includes the bodies of those who died abroad, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: The government has imposed the Essential Services (Maintenance) Act, 1952 to facilitate the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation Limited (PIA) in its citizen repatriation and evacuation operations amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to a news report. Read: PIA to revise fare prices for stranded Pakistanis amid pandemic lockdown This act will allow PIA to rescue, repatriate, and evacuate Pakistanis and foreigners stranded in various countries, and has been put in immediate effect for the next six months. The government put this law into action as numerous Pakistanis are still stranded in various countries with limited resources and expired visas, putting them in a precarious position. Therefore, the authorities placed PIA under the relevant act, with immediate effect, for repatriation efforts. Read: Web portal set up for stranded Pakistanis to view flight schedules A PIA spokesperson revealed that the airline has already brought back more than 27,000 people, despite the risks involved. He avowed that the airline would continue these services till every stranded Pakistani is repatriated. Additionally, he stated that this repatriation includes the bodies of those who died abroad, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":63678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6357,25303,27452,27769],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-pia","8":"tag-pia-flights-for-pakistanis-stuck-abroad-due-to-covid-19","9":"tag-pia-flights-for-stranded-pakistanis","10":"tag-repatriation"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PIA deemed essential service by law for repatriation - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"PIA has been deemed an essential service under the Essential Services Act to facilitate its repatriation operations for stranded Pakistanis.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-essential-services-act-repatriation-rescue-evacuation.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PIA deemed essential service by law for repatriation - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PIA has been deemed an essential service under the Essential Services Act to facilitate its repatriation operations for stranded Pakistanis.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pia-essential-services-act-repatriation-rescue-evacuation.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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