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Kaira brush aside false perception about President’s stay in London |
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LONDON, Aug 5 (APP) - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Qamar Zaman Kaira has discounted the negative perception regarding stay of the President in expensive hotel in London and re-launching of the Chairperson PPP, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.Commenting on the footage being telecast by certain television channels, Kaira said, the footage shown on some television networks is not that of the hotel in which the President of Pakistan is staying.President and his team is staying at the cheapest places as compared to previous presidents, he added.
He categorically rejected the
reports and said that the rent of the suite occupied by the President
is less than 300 Pounds which is meager by any standards of elite
hoteling in Britain.
Kaira said that he himself was staying with his friends and no
liability is charged to the government on account of his stay in the
United Kingdom.
“It is highly regrettable that the viewers are misled by portraying
wrong footage in a malicious effort to create wrong perceptions,” Kaira
said and added that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is already the Chairperson
of the Pakistan Peoples Party. There is no so called launching of his
chairperson.
The launching ceremony that would be organised in London on August 07 in fact, pertains to steer the fund raising campaign for the flood victims back home in the country.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chairperson of PPP will launch this fund raising campaign at the Pakistan High Commission’s flood relief centre, Kaira said and added that news reports regarding re-launching of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as Chairperson of PPP are misleading, concocted and contrary to facts.
Kaira further said that reports about booking of hall in Birmingham at
the expense of government exchequer are incorrect and exaggerated. As a
matter of fact, the community hall was booked by the Pakistan community
at 9,000 pounds and not 40,000 pounds as alleged in some news reports,
he added.
Regarding the visit of President Asif Ali Zardari to the “palace” in
France, Kaira explained that the house belongs to the ancestors of the
President. Asif Ali Zardari visited the place to inquire about the
health of his ailing father, Hakim Ali Zardari who is currently
undergoing medical treatment there, he added.
During his interaction with representatives of Dubai government,
pledges of support to build damaged bridges in Pakistan’s flood
affected areas have been made. The French government has committed five
million Euros to the President for rehabilitation of flood affected
people in Pakistan, he added.
Karia also lamented the sensational and unverified reporting by media
and urged media organizations to take note of irresponsible reporting
by a section of media.
He said the President’s interaction with British leadership would help
remove the misperceptions about Pakistan and the President would convey
the feelings of the people of Pakistan on the reported statement of the
British Prime Minister in India.
Kaira said, PPP follows the principle of “democracy is the best
revenge” as enunciated by Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and believes
that “dialogue is the best weapon” to further the national interest.
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Presidential address to the joint sitting of parliament |
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