@ Agno.
Once during some discussion with a (retd) General who had to do something with privatization thingy i was told that (i dont remember) how many billions of rupees are given to PIA annually alone by the govt so that it can recover from the deficit and pay its employees. i remember him being vigorously supportive of privatizing PIA. i was kinda against it, i was like hey, why would you privatize your national airline, and his reply was, if it had been in my hand i would even give PIA for FREE!! Atleast, in this way we would be able to save those those 2/3 whatever billion rupees that we hand over like a charity to PIA, annually!!
Guess, he was right!
And yes, this was post Musharraf.