Accident:
The Pakistan International Airlines flight crashed killing forty eight individuals.
It was reported the flight lost contact with communication system and was missing shortly not long after taking offfrom the northern town of Chitral.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed his “deep grief and sorrow” over the crash.
In a statement, he aforementioned “the entire nation is deeply saddened over today’s unfortunate crash and shares the grief of the families who lost their loved ones.”
Who Was Junaid Jamshed:
Jamshed rocketed to fame in Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s as the singer for the Vital Signs pop band. He launched a solo career later with a string of chart-topping albums and hits.
He gave up music in 2001 and announced that he was devoting his life to spreading Islam.
The engineering graduate from the University Of Engineering And Technology in Lahore conjointly hung out within the Asian nation Air Force.
He had hopes of turning into associate degree F-16 combat pilot however couldn't complete the coachingattributable to dangerous visual sense.
He was a member of the band very important Signs as lead singer and discharged their debut album, very important Signs one, in 1989.
They went on to produce albums and have become one amongst Pakistan’s leading music acts.
He launched a solo career in 1994 with the album Junaid of significant Signs followed by Us Rah Par and his final album in 2001.
Controversy:
In 2014 Jamshed was forced to unleash a public apology once a video of him showing to criticise the Prophet Muhammad’s wife was shared on social media.
An investigation into suspected blasphemy into the singer was launched by authorities.
The video went infectious and prompted many individuals to protest and require his arrest for “hurting spiritual sentiments of Muslims”, as reported by the International Business Times.
Sarwat Ijaz Qadri, then chief of the Asian country Sunni Tehreek organisation, said: “Juniad Jamshed’s arrest and placed on trial as per blasphemy laws.
“He doesn’t need to be forgiven for his profane remarks regarding the Mother of Believers, Hazrat Ayesha.”
Jamshed was even attacked at the Benazir Bhutto International airfield by protesters.
Crash Investigation:
Saigol said the ATR-42 aircraft had undergone regular maintenance and had in October passed an "A-check" certification, conducted after every 500 hours of flight operations.
"I think that there was no technical error or human error ... obviously there will be a proper investigation," he said.Please stay tuned for upcoming posts to read about the ongoing investigation for the the causes of crash.