Re: Rs 1.5bn spent on Musharraf’s foreign visits in 5 years, NA told
Brother, you are right though what you converted is not dollars but British pounds. Problem is that Pakistan is full of illitrate who do not know anything and get misguided by political goons easily.
Actually it was surprising that less than 25 million dollars was spent on Presidential visit world over in last eight years (what they are claiming 5 years is actually 8 years) and that comes to around 3 million a year. Reason is that President Musharraf takes few people when visiting abroad and travel plus live abroad modestly. As for BeNazir and Nawaz, they use to travel with army of goons and use to spend money like water.
Pakistan reaped many benefit of all President visits as Pakistan trade went up from 7.6 billion dollars in 1999 (similar to 1988) to over 18 billion dollars today, external debt that increased from 13 billion in 1988 (when BB and NS thug period started) to 38 billion dollars by 1999, and after 8 years of Musharrf rule it increased to only 40 billion dollars that in spite of Pakistan paid around 45 billion dollar interest on those 38 billion dollars in last 8 years and that means NS and BB goons debt in today’s dollars was over 83 billion (38 billon dollar capital plus 45 billion dollar interest) that got reduced to around 40 billion dollars today. Reserve also increased from less than 1 billion dollars to over 16 billion dollars.
In comparison, corrupt political thug prime ministers like Nawaz and BeNazir use to spend more than 5 million dollars of poor Pakistani money on their personal shopping every year when they use to go abroad each time and that is the reason plus many other reasons, like corruption, looting, mismanagement etc, that made Pakistan a basket case before Musharraf took over. If foreign trips of NS and BB get accounted than one would find that they might have spent billions of dollars on their trips with zero result.
As for Musharraf, he kept these thugs away from power and that was big service to poor Pakistan. Just imagine the wealth Pakistan saved by not having parliament from 1999 to 2002 and we had very few people running the country most effectively, saving Pakistan billions of dollars. For instance, during first three years we had no corrupt political choor parliamentarians, each of them used to steal more than 10 million dollars a year of poor Pakistani wealth whenever there is parliament.
Well, just two past choors, Nawaz and BeNazir stole 3500 to 4000 million dollars during 11 years they ruled together and if one adds interest on those looted money, it could be much over 8000 million dollars these two goons looted from Pakistan together, plus cost Pakistan another many thousand millions on wastages, personal luxury livings at government expense, and foreign trips, plus another many thousand millions looted and wasted by other of their political goons (chailay chamchays). Most likely during their corrupt period from 1988 to 1999, these two thugs (NS and BB) and their choor crook partners (chailay chamchays) looted, plundered, wasted and blown somewhere over 50000 million dollars (50 billion dollars) of poor Pakistanis money, making Pakistan a basket case begging from every country for survival and becoming jokers of the world.
Pakistan has seen days when both Pakistani crook Prime Ministers, NS and BB, were talk of the world as biggest corrupt thugs and cons in the history of world politics. Something no country could be proud of, that the country was so unfortunate that both Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1999 are world known corrupt thugs, liars, cons, and criminals whose name when taken anywhere in world, it is taken disgracefully. Now these two goons (NS and spouse Zardari of other corrupt BB known as big corrupt himself all over the world) have joined hands together to loot Pakistan again.