- Security guards had been proficient wristwatches in 2019.
- Most executive officers retained dear, treasured gifts, file presentations.
- 97% of gifts in Parvez Musharraf’s tenure had been retained.
ISLAMABAD: Two lower-rank security officers — a constable and a sepoy — set an example by depositing the gifts in Toshakhana in 2019 when everybody together with the top minister, president and federal ministers had been protecting gifts they won all through their overseas excursions.
According to the Toshakhana document launched by the Cabinet Division, SSG gunman Sepoy Atiq ur Rehman and Constable Malik Qasim Mehmood had been proficient wristwatches of Paul Picot Company in 2019 whose assessed price used to be Rs120,000 every, The News reported Tuesday.
However, each security team of workers deposited the gifts in Toshakhana. In December 2019, then-prime minister Imran Khan visited Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
The document has mirrored a number of fascinating incidents. One such example is former Punjab leader minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi who used to be proficient a tractor, a bike and a buffalo together with a calf. He declared the gifts however didn’t deposit the ones or paid the retention value.
A perusal of the document presentations lots of the govt officers who won treasured and dear gifts have retained them. Whereas, much less treasured gifts have both been deposited in Toshakhana or auctioned by the federal government. More than 90% of the gifts mirrored in the document had been retained by the officers who won them all through their overseas visits.
During former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s regime, 97% of gifts won by govt officers together with himself, then-prime minister, ministers, and armed forces officers had been retained. From 2002 to 2008, a complete of two,249 gifts had been declared with Toshakhana out of which round 70 gifts had been auctioned whilst the remaining had been retained by the officers.
The document presentations that in 2002, a complete of 257 gifts had been declared with Toshakhana of which round a dozen had been auctioned and the rest gifts had been retained by the officers. In 2003, 290 gifts had been declared of which round 14 had been auctioned and the remainder of the gifts had been retained.
The document additional presentations that in 2004, 350 gifts had been declared of which best seven had been auctioned; 475 gifts had been declared in 2005 of which round 8 had been auctioned and the rest had been retained by govt officers. In 2006, 381 gifts had been declared of which round 20 had been auctioned.
In 2007, a complete of 381 gifts had been declared of which round six had been auctioned while the rest gifts had been retained by govt officers. In 2008, 115 gifts had been declared with Toshakhana of which only a few had been auctioned.
The most sensible recipient of those gifts from 2002 to 2008 used to be Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf. Whereas one of the crucial ministers all through Musharraf’s regime together with Jahangir Khan Tareen, Shaukat Aziz, Umar Ayub deposited lots of the gifts in Toshakhana.
