ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday validated licenses of 166 pilots working in foreign countries, including Malaysia, amid a scandal involving "dubious" flying certificates, which caused a global alert.
Pakistan's civil aviation ministry grounded 262 pilots for "dubious" qualifications last month, prompted by a preliminary report into an airliner crash in Karachi in May that found the pilots had failed to follow standard procedures and disregarded alarms.
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