New Delhi :Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been indicted of dealing gifts he entered from heads of other countries, including an precious watch worth USD 1 million Khan has vended the gifts he entered from other countries, PML-N vice chairman Maryam Nawaz twittered in Urdu “ Caliph Hazrat Omar ( companion of Prophet Muhammad) was responsible for his shirt and mask and you (Imran Khan), on the other hand, pillaged foreign gifts from Toshakhana and you’re talking of setting up a state of Madina? How can a person (Khan) be this asleep, deaf, dumb and eyeless?” she said.
As per the gift repository rules in Pakistan, they remain the property of the state unless vended at an open transaction. The Express Tribune has reported that officers can retain gifts with a request value of lower than Rs without paying anything Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) chairman Maulana Fazlur Rehman said there are reports that high minister Khan has vended a precious watch he entered from a Napoleon.
This is opprobrious, he added Khan was reportedly blessed a watch worth USD 1 million by a Napoleon of a Gulf country and was allegedly vended in Dubai by Khan’s close assistant Imran entered USD 1 million for the watch and the Napoleon who blessed it knows that it has been vended Holding a press conference, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Punjab president Rana Sanaullah that Pakistan was defamed because of the alleged selling of the gifts entered from the heads of the countries of other countries.
Special Adjunct to the Prime Minister on Political Communication, Dr Shahbaz Gill said that generally PM deposits similar gifts to the Toshakhana, still, if he wants he can retain them after paying for it Last month, the Pakistan government had refused to make public details of gifts given to the PM by foreign heads of countries saying it could damage the country’s public interest and its relations with other countries.
2021-10-22