According to reports on Pakistani Aviation forums, PIA's management opted for this livery to avoid criticism of it's provincial design and to save costs that the provincial liveries apparently produce.
PIA's claim supposedly was that the provincial tails consist of expensive stickers that were too expensive to maintain and also to replace in case of any maintainance needed on the tails.
If this is the case, I support the removal of the provincial tails, but the replacing livery should at least be creative and in good shape, which I do not see in this newly adopted livery.
This livery is in a way a repeat of PIA's livery used back in the 1980s as seen in this model photo.
Repeating a livery from an older generation is a big mistake in my opinion for an airline. Additionally, it is said that PIA has been hiring professional artists to design their latest liveries.
Not only is this a waste of money by PIA, but it also does not pay off as these liveries are very plain. There is no need to waste money on professional designers, especially when they offer lack of imagination and when the internet is filled with modified airliner photos made by enthusiast on aviation forums as well as sites like http://www.cardatabase.net/modifiedairlinerphotos/
There are countless liveries which look decorative while saving fuel and other costs at the same time.
All PIA could do is to ask aviation enthusiasts and artists to come forward and offer the best livery their imaginations can produce. In return they can be offered a prize for the winner such as a model in their livery.
It would sure save them plenty of money instead of hiring 'professional' designers who seem to lack any imagination.
Though I did not make the modified picture posted below, I strongly believe this is a much better replacement than PIA's most recently adopted livery: (click on image to enlarge)
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