ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Communications and Postal Services Murad Saeed on Wednesday revealed that approximately Rs8.3 billion funds were spent on the security of former Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif from the national treasury.
Murad Saeed detailed that more than Rs2.14 billion funds had been spent on Sharif’s residence Jati Umra during the last five years. The expenditure of Shehbaz Sharif’s five camp officer, private visits, special plane and house was an additional burden on the national treasury, he added.
It has been exposed that corruption money was being transferred in land cruisers amid VIP protocol by Sharifs, slammed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) minister.
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The minister said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had stopped his ministers from running politics on anyone’s health condition. He said that the former premier Nawaz Sharif had faced imprisonment following the verdict of the Supreme Court (SC) which also declared him ineligibility. (With additional input from INP)
