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She is right!

Ms. Mehwish Hayat is right. All the airports of Pakistan are just like UNDER CONSTRUCTION and WORK IN PROGRESS. Shame.

Tell IK to blame NS for the mess. Or is it his version of Riyasat-e-madina!

That's ... virtually every public washroom in the country.

The masiya CAA has contracted are ill equipped and ill trained to keep clean the toilets. CAA has not spend a dime on renovating restrooms in more than a decade.

It’s not just airports in general. It’s almost at every public place or mall you’d visit would be the same. As a nation we are not bothered by this because maybe we are accustomed to such hygiene levels now and just don’t care or think it’s below par.

What about the toilets of the PIA Jumbo Jets? I have seen even peep holes in their doors.

And then they want tourism to flourish here.

Although the Airport is a federal affair, I would start with blaming the PPP government. As they started this non-merit and non-deserving based employments. Having said that currently the PTI government should be held accountable for any thing that’s wrong with any Airport! It’s a federal matter PTI please solve it, no-excuses!

Last year used the Jinnah International Airport (KHI) washroom. Toilet smell less & relatively cleaner than 2016. The cleaner asked 'bakhshish'.

Not only the toilets are abysmall but I have seen the security guards checking passengers leaving the final gate having tea in one hand and gun in the the other.

Anyone? Literally one?

That shows how clean a nation is.

Hygiene unfortunately isn’t the average Pakistanis main priority, most needs to be educated in social hygiene.

Board the plane starving and get out also starving, no drinking or eating, that is the only way to spare yourself this disgusting ordeal, to this day I haven’t understood that cleanliness is part of our religion but believe you me in the course of all my travels I haven’t seen a dirtier nation than ours.

Exaggeration not always. It’s clean. May the user there at odd time of night. Still it must be clean. The guy used prior is responsible, she left out unclean.

This is disgusting and happened with my brother’s family who live in USA, when they visited Pakistan few months ago. It is true, lady cleaner ask money every time if they wanted to use washroom. My nephew who is a law student was so upset they he wanted to return to USA very next day.

Yeah, ....... but let’s start paying our fair share of Taxes also! When I go back to Pakistan ,I see all these people leading a lavish lifestyle who are paying Zero Taxes. We are all responsible for the state of affairs in Pakistan.

Thank you, Mehwish for pointing out the most important issue on tourism and hygene. Airports should be very clean in every way. Asking for money by workers should be eliminated. Don't promote tourism if you cant clean the washrooms. Bad for PK.

I just wish that if the government could not fix the economy, creat jobs and control the inflation then they could at least run a campaign on road saftey and cleanliness. You see, airports are mostly used by the privileged people and if these are so dirty then imagine how the normal public places would look like.

Noise maker.

And almost 11% of visitors say: Clean Enough. This gives me knee jerk to imagine their own house condition.

Imagine those 10.28% women's homes who say condition was clean. Did they go inside with Burka and local perfume?

Not only the Toilets but KHI Airport by itself needs a new life. When I landed in KHI in 2015 , I felt the same way

Come and see the city , its even more beautiful

Hire people at the airport who knows how to manage it but not base on ethnic,political,religious & family relation.

Who cares about people and their needs

Amir Liaquat dismissed Mehwish Hayat as an item girl. Perhaps now he can let us all know what he, as a politician and a self-styled religious scholar, has done to highlight the pitiful hygiene standards in our airports?

It's all Western countries fault so no problem!

Don't just blame the extremely low paid sweepers and janitors, also blame the Pakistani Citizens that have terrible habits of using the bathroom, all the mess they make. Want proof? Look at what the Pakistani Citizens do on the local streets, throwing stuff outside, no concept of ownership of keeping the city clean, easy to blame the low paid janitors that have to deal with illiterate and unhygienic Pakistani Citizens!!!

Cleaning of toilets at all airports in the country is the responsibility of the sweepers of Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan. It shows the how CAA is managing the toilets of airports which are frequently used by the outgoing and incoming passengers in Pakistan.

They must come up with addition of new bathrooms bigger in size and more modern and clean.CAA authorities must visit other airports and must match the facilities.The world is very competitive and watching .Thanks Mehwish Hayat for highlighting the matter.

To prepare airports for tourists, an entire revamp has to be done from personnel, waiting times, public stands, cleanliness, helpful staff, expression of staff.

She can be a better PM than current one. Selectors should make a note of it.

Will never forget the experiences of using washrooms at Lahore and Faisalabad airports. First of all, there was standing water all over the floor, stalls were disgusting, and on top of that, there was no toilet paper. Furthermore, people harassing passengers to use the basic airport amenities is a phenomenon that only happens on Pakistani airports.

We as a nation are lacking sense of hygiene !!

This $ , € and Riyal is a menace not just restricted to washroom attendants but is in practice with porters as well. They demand payment in these currencies even before they load your baggage onto trollies in International arrivals. As for the hygiene, I have had sightings of cockroaches in men’s toilets in International departures. Disgusting management.

More people should send these compliants about wash rooms, but just randomly tweeting is not enough,find the person directly responsbile ,name and shame and press should go to their offices to get answers,this is how free press helps builds up socities !

@American Raja Exactly! It is reflection of our nation. Nation of tax evaders, nation of blambers. Yes our politicians are corrupt, bureaucrats are corrupt so is public. How much tax lady Mehwish pays. Someone complained that clearers are asking for money - they asking because they are not even paid to afford 1 meal a day. In west garage collector is paid more that graduate engineer.

@Chooran Man 1 Agree...... Pakistani nation as a whole does not care about cleanliness. It is sad

I saw a cockroach in PIA aeroplane on a flight from London to Islamabad.Never travelled with PIA again.

@DR AHMAD - MELBOURNE - Not Sure about Aussie, but in US when you visit certain places attended by someone, you do give some money. That supplements their earning . I hope your nephew look into working for CAIR when he graduates .

@Chooran Man - I agree, almost all of us have no clue of personal hygiene . if you get a chance to visit most of the mosques in US you may forget Pakistani bathrooms. We just don’t have concept of Keeping bathroom. We have delegated this responsibility to non-Muslim thinking it’s unclean and un islamic to clean bathrooms. Any questions?

I would request CAA to give due attention to this basic need of the travelers, specially in alignment with the government’s strategy of promoting the tourism. Hope the concerned will respond to that.

That’s a culture of our society . Restroom are dirty in any Pakistani or Indian restaurant in foreign countries also.

Meh wish has done a great service to Pakistan. Please listen to what she has stated. In my earlier days, I read: cleanliness is Godliness.

@A true fact What a shame. Hire people to do the job, unemployment will come down and cleanliness will improve. Hence the economy will be better off.

@Dr.Sadaf It is a part of our religion. We offer prayers five time a day and clean ourselves each time. If we don't do this then it is our fault. Cleanliness Is Godliness.

Unfortunately it is Pakistani culture where customer service or politeness does not exist. Please check Dubai you will rarely find any Pakistani working in customer service area.

@saksci Reason being ordinary Pakistani do not treat each other with respect, it is not in our psychology. Common decency is uncommon!

@Ibrahim S You nailed it! None of us have studied our religion (uneducated nation). We learn about our religion through word of mouth. We believe blindly what we are told. I hired a muslim plumber to open blocked main drain, he unblocked the drain but left the rest of cleanup for me and said brother I won't do rest of cleanup because I am Muslim! Next time I hired non-muslim plumber he did all including cleanup!

Encountered this last time I was in Pak back in 2016 and honestly it was sad.

I hope and their are NO CAMERAS in the washrooms. Is anybody listening?

Disgusting is the word every time you use a public facility. Not only the airport, everywhere. Ist, cleaning is not done. 2nd, the public lacks a sense of clean toilets,

Very very nice

They must come up with addition of new bathrooms bigger in size and more modern and clean.CAA authorities must visit other airports and must match the facilities.The world is very competitive and watching .Thanks Mehwish Hayat for highlighting the matter.

Fully support the celeb's views. Just used the Lahore airport washroom upon return form Indonesia. The washrooms at Jakarta airport were at least as clean as our 5-star hotels. And ours were minus 5-star. Its an attitude problem, Our workers can get away with poor performance because the supervisors don't care; they don't care because no heads roll. With a lifelong GoP employment ( which I too have enjoyed) and a fat pension to follow , there is hardly any incentive to work in the government other than rising to grade 22. I actually complained to Secretary Aviation but he too was very exasperated. Without putting hobs on the line, and ending the lifelong perks, nothing is likely to improve.

yes I agreed with all

Yes. Spot on Mehwish Hayat. It is not only Karachi but every airport in Pakistan

Disgusting. Bathrooms need to be cleaned constantly. Management needs to get their act together, pay the cleaners properly and spend money to keep the bathrooms clean at all times.