PIA brings passengers from Islamabad without their baggage

CHITRAL: PIA brought passengers from Islamabad to Chitral without their baggage, passengers here told ChitralToday.

Foreign tourists were happy and laughing all through the flight but after landing in Chitral when they came to know that their luggage had been dropped off and the next flight was after five days, they went into a shock and slumped on the chairs like dead bodies.

One of the tourists vowed that he would never travel by PIA again and if there was no alternative he would cancel that trip.

A lady passenger started crying saying all her children’s paraphernalia and her medicines which cannot be found in Chitral were in the bag which has been off loaded at Islamabad, one of the passengers told ChitralToday.

A staff present at the luggage collection point said some pieces of checked in baggage which was offloaded in Islamabad on June 16 had not yet reached Chitral.

When the local PIA station manager Mr Zahid was contacted on telephone, he admitted they were having this problem since quite some time. He said he had written and Emailed the authorities in Islamabad a number of times but no body paid heed to his complaints., he said.