Gilani justifies Zardari's trip with large entourage

[mujahideen]

Gilani justifies Zardari's trip with large entourage

By Syed Irfan Raza


ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday justified President Asif Ali Zardari’s act to take a big entourage with him on his visit to Saudi Arabia saying the president took ‘large’ delegation for Umrah on his personal expenditure.

Talking to reporters at a function the prime minister said he wanted to clarify that the delegation was not taken on government expenses.
President Asif Ali Zardari went Saudi Arabia on a two-day visit on Tuesday with a big entourage of up to 200 people to seek financial assistance from Saudi leadership to bail out Pakistan from prevailing economic crisis, it is learnt.
Sources told Dawn that the President‘s delegation had flown to Saudi Arabia in three chartered flights. The advance party of the delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday.
Except few ministers and government officials the majority of entourage comprised friends and close aides of President Zardari who will perform Umrah in the holy land when the delegation were holding meetings with Saudi leadership to seek financial aid during two-day visit.
Critics were of the view that the main purpose of the visit was to get monetary assistance from the Saudi brothers but the country’s leadership has shown extravagance by taking a big entourage with them.
The sources said President Zardari had flown to Saudi Arabia in his special plane along with 15 people including his personal staff and some friends. No federal minister and senior bureaucrat were accompanying him in this flight.
The other chartered flight was carrying 175 people mostly President’s friends and close aides. Some ministers and government official were also travelling in this plane they including Deputy Speaker National Assembly Faisal Karim Kundi, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Sahukat Tareen, Minister for Labour and Manpower Khursheed Shah, Law Minister Farooq H Naek, Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan.
It is for the first time, the state run PTV was not directed to cover the departure of the President to avoid criticism of the media on taking 200 people with him just for seeking financial help.
President Zardar's visit to Saudi Arabia was given special importance as amid severe economic crisis the country was looking towards recently constituted forum, “Friends of Pakistan,” after stringent conditions spelled out by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But reports said the president could not get the desired results.
Pakistan has already sought financial help from the “Friends of Pakistan”, including China, the United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Australia, Turkey and Canada.
The reports said Pakistan requires around $15 billion to prevent economy crunch and during Saudi Arabia’s visit President Zardari will try to seek assistance for the deferred oil facility to deal with the balance of payments crisis.

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[batmannow]

Gilani justifies Zardari's trip with large entourage

By Syed Irfan Raza


ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday justified President Asif Ali Zardari’s act to take a big entourage with him on his visit to Saudi Arabia saying the president took ‘large’ delegation for Umrah on his personal expenditure.

Talking to reporters at a function the prime minister said he wanted to clarify that the delegation was not taken on government expenses.
President Asif Ali Zardari went Saudi Arabia on a two-day visit on Tuesday with a big entourage of up to 200 people to seek financial assistance from Saudi leadership to bail out Pakistan from prevailing economic crisis, it is learnt.
Sources told Dawn that the President‘s delegation had flown to Saudi Arabia in three chartered flights. The advance party of the delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday.
Except few ministers and government officials the majority of entourage comprised friends and close aides of President Zardari who will perform Umrah in the holy land when the delegation were holding meetings with Saudi leadership to seek financial aid during two-day visit.
Critics were of the view that the main purpose of the visit was to get monetary assistance from the Saudi brothers but the country’s leadership has shown extravagance by taking a big entourage with them.
The sources said President Zardari had flown to Saudi Arabia in his special plane along with 15 people including his personal staff and some friends. No federal minister and senior bureaucrat were accompanying him in this flight.
The other chartered flight was carrying 175 people mostly President’s friends and close aides. Some ministers and government official were also travelling in this plane they including Deputy Speaker National Assembly Faisal Karim Kundi, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Sahukat Tareen, Minister for Labour and Manpower Khursheed Shah, Law Minister Farooq H Naek, Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan.
It is for the first time, the state run PTV was not directed to cover the departure of the President to avoid criticism of the media on taking 200 people with him just for seeking financial help.
President Zardar's visit to Saudi Arabia was given special importance as amid severe economic crisis the country was looking towards recently constituted forum, “Friends of Pakistan,” after stringent conditions spelled out by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But reports said the president could not get the desired results.
Pakistan has already sought financial help from the “Friends of Pakistan”, including China, the United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Australia, Turkey and Canada.
The reports said Pakistan requires around $15 billion to prevent economy crunch and during Saudi Arabia’s visit President Zardari will try to seek assistance for the deferred oil facility to deal with the balance of payments crisis.

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a long time, PPP leadership was out of VIP status, now its thier time to relex, shopping in the west, GILANI, KYANI, ZARDARI every one , influential , powerfull person wasting the nation's money on travlling abroad.
poor nation's , poor luck!

 

[dr.umer]

Retard justification by our PM but it's not his fault. He is just a puppet unable to differentiate between right or wrong.

Now Pakistanis should know why most of friendly nations refused to provide any economic help.

 

[pkpatriotic]

Originally Posted by mujahideen
Gilani justifies Zardari's trip with large entourage

By Syed Irfan Raza

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday justified President Asif Ali Zardari’s act to take a big entourage with him on his visit to Saudi Arabia saying the president took ‘large’ delegation for Umrah on his personal expenditure.*

Talking to reporters at a function the prime minister said he wanted to clarify that the delegation was not taken on government expenses.*

President Asif Ali Zardari went Saudi Arabia on a two-day visit on Tuesday with a big entourage of up to 200 people to seek financial assistance from Saudi leadership to bail out Pakistan from prevailing economic crisis, it is learnt.

Sources told Dawn that the President‘s delegation had flown to Saudi Arabia in three chartered flights. The advance party of the delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday.

Except few ministers and government officials the majority of entourage comprised friends and close aides of President Zardari who will perform Umrah in the holy land when the delegation were holding meetings with Saudi leadership to seek financial aid during two-day visit.

Critics were of the view that the main purpose of the visit was to get monetary assistance from the Saudi brothers but the country’s leadership has shown extravagance by taking a big entourage with them.

The sources said President Zardari had flown to Saudi Arabia in his special plane along with 15 people including his personal staff and some friends. No federal minister and senior bureaucrat were accompanying him in this flight.

The other chartered flight was carrying 175 people mostly President’s friends and close aides. Some ministers and government official were also travelling in this plane they including Deputy Speaker National Assembly Faisal Karim Kundi, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Sahukat Tareen, Minister for Labour and Manpower Khursheed Shah, Law Minister Farooq H Naek, Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan.

It is for the first time, the state run PTV was not directed to cover the departure of the President to avoid criticism of the media on taking 200 people with him just for seeking financial help.

PM keep defending the happeneings if its uncoverd to the public....Yesterday PM defended the enhancemnt of ministerial Cabinet and tried hard to prove that would be for good governance and in benefits of ...****, Today We are watching that he is trying to prerserving the trevelling of a big entourage to Saudia to seek aid, what a PM Pakistan have that he is doing hard working by continue trevelling at govt expences to projection PPP, defend PPP's actions and disregards Pakistani objects (as showing during his Visit of Turkey. while on other side he is defending other govt's act to the domestic media, Its shows Mr. Gilani act in fact as a Preserving Mole (PM) for PPP govt rather, instead of Prime Minister(PM) of Pakistan. Well Done PM you do the good job By the way as now President and COAS has finished their recent foreign trips, now its your turn again where r u going now......... I advise South Africa may be best for u in this turn


Its good sign, that lets try to throw dust in the eys of peoples to loot in any case and most probably will be successfull, but if some body catch so keh dein gey "hum tu mazaq ker rahey the"....similarly now when his trevelling came under critics they are stating that all the expence beared by Mr. Zardari..... ................By the way if its was really as Pm stated then why they didn't explored to the public as its can have good impressions for PPP, while they always engaged to make ficticious picture to set ppp image in public???? Why they had avoided such trevelling to cover from Media?

It would be really good and appreciable if Zardari took deserving peoples with him for "Umra" on his expenses rather. But the peoples he had taken with him, non of them them less then billioniors .....
But yes one thing can be imiginable due ot ZarDari's previous record that he may colloect heavy commission from each of the his thugs companions by offering them "Umra" being a guest of Saudi Kingdom.... could be charmfull for such status-cuo

What a good governance GOOD LUCK for PPP

 

[blain2]

Retard justification by our PM but it's not his fault. He is just a puppet unable to differentiate between right or wrong.

Now Pakistanis should know why most of friendly nations refused to provide any economic help.

He is not a puppet but a "dunce" in the truest sense of the word. I am sure all the ministers came to Zardari and the dunce with hands spread "sir Allah ka wasta, muft ka umrah kara dain" and you guys know the rest. Somebody should remind our ministers and Presidents and PMs that umrah and hajj is a personal responsibility the reward for which is earned when you do it with your own means (haq-halal ki rozy) and don't take away the money from the needy (which is what is happening in transporting these 200 freeloaders). This is a curse that Zia inflicted upon the nation and ever since, the nation has been paying for it to get the sins of these crooks expiated (it seems little do they know that it takes more than a trip and the acts of umrah and hajj to get your sins expiated). Maybe someone should remind them about "Hajj-e-akbar". Using the same money to get someone's poor daughter married, or other social services would be acts more dear to seek the pleasure of the Almighty.

 

[TOPGUN]

All ppp riding for free now !! enjoying the good life while the country suffers through the worst time ever !! unreal