A meeting of the board of directors of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) was held on Friday under the chairmanship of Defence Secretary and CAA Board Chairman Lieutenant General Hamid Nawaz (Retd). The board approved the CAA audited accounts for 2003-04 and appointment of external auditors. To meet the CAA training requirements, the board cleared the participation of CAA Pakistan in the Co-operative Development of Operational Safety and Continuing Airworthiness Program-South Asia (COSCAP) for the next five years.

The board members discussed the development work and progress of Sialkot International Airport - the first airport of its kind in the private sector. Bilal Ahmad (Special Secretary, Military Finance), Major General Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhry (Retd) (Additional Secretary-I Ministry of Defence), CAA Director General Air Marshal Pervez Nawaz (Retd), MNA Basit Ahmed Sultan Bukhari, Askari Commercial Bank President Kalimur Rehman, British Oxygen Company Chairman Munawar Hameed and Invest Capital and Securities Executive Director Qasim Rabbani attended the meeting.

Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2005