PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: All 48 people on board a PIA plane, including famous pop singer-turned-Islamic preacher Junaid Jamshed and three foreigners, were killed yesterday as the aircraft crashed and burst into flames in a hilly area near Pakistan’s Abbottabad after facing engine problems.

The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane PK-661 crashed in Saddha Batolni village near Pakistan Ordinance Factory, Havelian, en route to Islamabad from Chitral in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.