[1] It provided passenger, cargo and charter services, to major cities in Pakistan and the Middle East.

[2] On 22 May 2004, the Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan (CAA) grounded Shaheen Air as the airline owed it millions of rupees.

The clearance letter was issued by CAA following receipt of a payment from Shaheen Air International towards the outstanding dues and funds.

[5] In October 2018, SAI flight operations were completely suspended by the local regularity body PCAA and the airline declared a financial defaulter.

[6] Shaheen reported an un-named investor from Saudi Arabia was to help the airline return to service from January 2019.

[7] Even after repeated protests by the 5,000 employees, who were still owed months of wages, as of February 2019 no investigation into the matter had been initiated by any of the agencies, including the Federal Board of Revenue, Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority and the Federal Ministry of Aviation.