Rawalpindi court temporarily bars Careem from calling its drivers 'captains'

[Khan vilatey]

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The petitioner states that Careem had given the title of “captain” to its drivers, thus causing him "disgrace and humiliation". — Photo via Twitter

A civil court in Rawalpindi has temporarily barred Careem from using the word “captain” for its car drivers after an airline pilot approached the court complaining to have faced “humiliation and disgrace” over sharing his job title with the ride-hailing company's staff.

The order was issued by Civil Judge Rawalpindi Rao Ejaz Ahmed Awan, who ordered the company to submit its response by July 31.

The petition was filed by Labeeb Ahmed, a pilot by profession, through his lawyer Chaudhry Rizwan Elahi.

The petitioner stated that due to Careem's use of the term “captain” for its drivers, he has to bear the brunt of jokes as people often deliberately confuse his job title with that of Careem captains.

He said such instances had shattered his confidence and disgraced an aviation rank that is “attained after going through rigorous education and obtaining commercial pilot license from the Civil Aviation Authority Pakistan.”
The petitioner said that due to Careem's nomenclature, he felt intimidated when sharing his job title with people.
He argued that the title of captain should either be reserved for a pilot or a third-ranked officer of the armed forces, also known as a commissioned officer.

After hearing the arguments, the civil judge ordered the company to not use the word “captain” for its drivers until the next hearing and also sought a response from the zonal manager of the company by July 31.

Rawalpindi court temporarily bars Careem from calling its drivers 'captains'

Order issued after an airline captain complains of facing “humiliation” over sharing his job title with Careem's car drivers.

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Hahhahahahahahahha, the next will be judges on coke studio because they have more Brian’s than these judges, next would be all bus drivers as it says pilot gate on the f-16 tyara old Bedford buses , next would be airline captains because they are really glorified bus drivers ……. This is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Funny and painful at the same time

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[White Lion]

They should refer to them as "your honour" or the "honourable..."

One day they will start calling them you Highness

 

[muhammadhafeezmalik]

What about the term JAHAZ for drug addicts??

 

[Goritoes]

What's wrong with Captain? you want to call them, Gari chalane wala insaan?

 

[Bouncer]

Pakistani courts. Where the thugs wear black coats and the clown wears a wig.

What about the term JAHAZ for drug addicts??

Take it to Rawalpindi court. You can copyright the term jahaz.

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

Parle darje ki bongi hai ye.

 

[bhola record]

One time, yours truly went to DHA on a careem.They stopped the car at the gate and asked for identification.The driver with a straight face said captain careem.
No more questions were asked.

 

[baqai]

buhat hi choti soch expressed from the pilot

 

[Hyde]

Pakistani courts ko siwaey chay pana karnay kay aur koe kaam nahi

In UK, we basically have two type of Taxi services.

1) Black Cab
2) Private Hire

And legally we cannot use the word Taxi for Private Hire. PHV is the most popular form of Taxi as its easy to get into and apps like Uber, Bolt and Ola recruits drivers from Private Hire. There was a French company who tried to get into Ride-Hailing market of UK with the name of Taxify and TFL wasted years but did not issue a license. Ultimately they had to rename the brand to Kapten and the license was issued. TFL was quite strict about it that you can't use the word Taxi as its exclusive for Black Cabs also known as Hackney Carriage. Now that Kapten app is called "Free Now"

Th bottom left is... If Transport for London can't even let you use 4 words of Taxi in between longer word of Taxify, I see nothing wrong in barring certain words for ride hailing apps by the regulators.

 

[TechMan]

In UK, we basically have two type of Taxi services.

1) Black Cab
2) Private Hire

And legally we cannot use the word Taxi for Private Hire. PHV is the most popular form of Taxi as its easy to get into and apps like Uber, Bolt and Ola recruits drivers from Private Hire. There was a French company who tried to get into Ride-Hailing market of UK with the name of Taxify and TFL wasted years but did not issue a license. Ultimately they had to rename the brand to Kapten and the license was issued. TFL was quite strict about it that you can't use the word Taxi as its exclusive for Black Cabs also known as Hackney Carriage. Now that Kapten app is called "Free Now"

Th bottom left is... If Transport for London can't even let you use 4 words of Taxi in between longer word of Taxify, I see nothing wrong in barring certain words for ride hailing apps by the regulators.

Court is not a regulatory authority. It is up to Pakistani's regulatory authority to decide whether calling taxi drivers captain is right or wrong.

 

[Hyde]

Court is not a regulatory authority. It is up to Pakistani's regulatory authority to decide whether calling taxi drivers captain is right or wrong.

Courts are the arbitrator / the mother of regulators… Almost every ride hauling company have a case going on in courts of UK as well

there was a famous case of Uber vs TFL alongside many other Uber cases

now there is another case of Ola vs TFL

And much more