Rs 1.5bn spent on Musharraf’s foreign visits in 5 years, NA told

[Sa1eem]

Re: Rs 1.5bn spent on Musharraf’s foreign visits in 5 years, NA told

@K_Khan

yes you are right, the values are in £s. the other thing we CONVENIENTLY over see , is that these expenses are associated with presidential office, not with the person who is in the office, let it be Musharaf or some moron from PPP, PNL(N), PNL (Q) or GS.
as a president visiting a country, you go with the SUGGESTED security plans by HOSTING country. you are not SUPPOSED to stay in TRAVEL LODGE or PREMIER INN near a motorway; you are obliged to follow those plans. unfortunately after 9/11 THAT doesn’t come cheap, especially when you are 2nd on hate/hit list after Bush.

Well brother, first of all it is a lie (just like most of lies from NS and his teams plus media spin masters) that President was paying so much in London living at Doncaster hotel. Nevertheless, most of President Musharraf visits abroad was beneficial for Pakistan in developing relationship for Pakistan as well as increasing trade.

As for 25 million dollar expenditure in Presidential visits, it is really very little and these mentally retarded political goons did not realised that it is very prudent expense, just like liar Ishaq Daar did not realised that his lies about Pakistan economy during last 8 years would only expose him and his lies.

We should know that NS ordered a jumbo jet for his visits abroad that cost Pakistan many millions and when Musharraf came to power he gave that Jumbo Jet to PIA so that it could be used for commercial flights and Pakistan could recover some money spent on it. The cost of Jumbo and its depreciation itself cost Pakistan over 25 million dollars.

Further, Musharraf is the first Pakistani ‘head of state’ who started using military aircrafts to visit Arab and neighbouring countries saving huge money in fuel and other expenses. Most of the time he was accompanied with one to two people (and using as companion Pakistani embassy staffs in countries he use to visit) and keeping the visit business like and days to minimum, contrary to practice of past when not only Prime minister but Ministers and even parliamentarians visiting abroad use to take army of friends, relatives and officials with them making foreign visits as picnic.

You would be surprised that during 8 years, President Musharraf did not go abroad for single medical reasons or took for himself anything whatever presented to him during foreign visits (as he handed them all to treasury), contrary to practice in Pakistan where not only Prime Ministers and Ministers, but even Parliamentarians and head of public organisations keep going abroad on medical checkups at government expenses and spending millions of dollars, plus keeping whatever they were presented abroad when on official visits (though they should officially hand them over to treasury or buy them from treasury paying nominal value of the item).