Pakistan, May 16 -- Pakistan has renewed efforts to restore direct flights to the United States (US), the Pakistani interior ministry said on Friday, following talks between both sides in Islamabad. The US, United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) banned the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), privatized in Dec., after a deadly PIA Airbus A-320 crash in a residential neighborhood in Karachi in May 2020. The disaster, which killed nearly 100 people, was attributed to human error by the pilots and air traffic control and was followed by allegations that nearly a third of PIA pilot licenses were fake or dubious. Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi discussed the resumption of PIA flights to the US at a meeting with US Assistant Sec...