I'm surprised he hasn't done anything with PIA yet.
All PIA flights to the US have an intermediate stop, where all transit passengers are offloaded and put through security again. Difficult to also ban laptops on these flights when other flights from the intermediate airports don't have the same ban.
However the EK flights via MIL and ATH to the US do not have the additional security screening or the lap top ban.
Insanity, unless it's purely commercial.