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Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is the national flag carrier of Pakistan. With its primary hub at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, the airline also operates from its secondary hubs at Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore and at Islamabad International Airport. Until its privatization in 2025, the airline was managed and operated as a state-owned enterprise under the Aviation Division of the federal Government of Pakistan. Founded on 29 October 1946 by Mirza Ishpahani and Adamjee Dawood as Orient Airways, the airline was initially a private entity and based in Calcutta in British India, before shifting operations to the newly independent state of Pakistan in August 1947. Soon, Orient Airways was nationalized to form the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (PIAC). The airline commenced international services in 1955 to London, via Cairo and Rome. In 1964, it became the first non-Communist airline to fly to China. PIA assisted in the establishment of Emirates in 1985 and became the launch customer of the Boeing 777-200LR in 2004. On 10 November 2005, PIA completed the world's longest nonstop commercial passenger flight using a Boeing 777-200LR, flying eastbound from Hong Kong to London in…

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