What a joke with
this poor country
A dubious person reported to have been spoted
wearing Rs. 455 million wrist watch while POOR MAN BUDGET was being
presented in the National Assembly of Pakistan was no one else but
suspicious looking Janab i Nawaz Sharif Sahib, the newly selected Prime
Minister of poor Pakistan by R.Os of our Judiciary.
The selected Prime Minister just to please IMF, in
his madding speech in the National Assemly after laspe of 14 years
started his tenure of government by warning the poor & helpless
people of Pakistan, that they will have to tighten their belts in
days come to save the country from defaulting. No doubt idea
presented was not bad. Nation should collectively come forward to share the
burden inaccordance with their capacity to bear the burden for a good cause.
Unfortunately, at the same time when the most expansive
watch in Pakistan was being displayed to the stun members of the relatively
less richer class in National assembly, a mind boggling, ruthless budget
was being presented by his cronies in the name of the poor bringing
devastation in their lives,literally erroding their already hand to mouth
state of life. The most corrupt elite class further crushed poor &
white colored middle class of the country by levying with loads of unnecessary
taxes, specially on those who were already bearing the burnt of existing taxes
much beyond their capacity to pay, badly effecting their day to day lives,
leavig filthy rich to go Scott free to enjoy their lives in one of the poorest
countries of the world.
Everything essentially required for living of a human
being has increased almost10 times higher then the prices of commodoties
availible in the days of President General Musharraf.
What a hard luck for those who work whole day like an
animals but at the end of day could not even earn enough tofeed their childern
properly, while this shameless Prime Minister opts to show his expansive watch
to the helpless nation.
The idea meet the requirements of the
country. His party has already burdened the nation with unnecessary taxes
beyond the reach & capacity of the of the people, while
Now the question arises as to how and from where this
gentleman managed to buy such an expansive watch, had this much amount as being
said ever been reflected or accounted in any of their tax statements released
earlier at their end mentioning purchase of a watch for such a huge sum.
The answer would probably would be Big NO. Accordingly,
in the interest of the people of Pakistan, it is requested that at least one
SUO-MOTO be taken by the chief Justice who is keeping his NUM on the subject,
enabling the people to see the true face of these jugglers.
But one must say, Hats off to such shameless jokers, who
don’t care to pay taxes themselves but take such nasty steps to squeeze
even blood of its people, where around 39% of its population live below povert
line.
Adnan
Khan
Pakistan’s Poverty And The
Multi-Million-Dollar Watch
By Palash Ghosh | June 18 2013 2:29 PM
A Pakistani lawmaker who allegedly wore a
very expensive watch during a session of the National Assembly has sparked an
outcry over the huge wealth gap in a country reeling with massive poverty.
complex.com
Louis Moinet Meteoris watch
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It's not clear which
member of the Pakistani government was wearing the watch in question, but it
was Shazia Marri who brought it to the public's attention. According to
Pakistani media, Marri, an assembly member affiliated with the Pakistan
Peoples’ Party (PPP) – which just lost a national election to new Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan’s Muslim League (PML-N) – criticized the new
government for its failure to present a program to alleviate poverty in the
national budget, saying the new budget favors the wealthy (particularly
industrialists). “What else one can expect from a party whose leaders are fond
of wearing such expensive personal items,” Marri said on Monday.
Marri was apparently
referring to a watch that she valued at $4.6 million, worn by an unidentified
PML-N member. The statement shocked the parliament and prompted Speaker Sardar
Ayaz Sadiq to ask Marri if she meant 4.6 million U.S. dollars or Pakistani
rupees. She confirmed she meant U.S. currency. (Converted into Pakistani
currency, the watch would cost a cool 455 million rupees.)
“Then the owner of the
watch must have got it adequately insured,” the speaker quipped. But Marri
refused to identify who was wearing such a costly accoutrement, even after the
speaker asked her.
ZeeNews of India
reported that, according to Twitter accounts, it was none other than Nawaz
Sharif who was wearing the watch, a Louis Moinet “Meteoris” that does indeed
fetch a price of $4.6 million.
According to
watchmaker Louis Moinet, the Meteoris watch includes pieces of actual
meteorites, as well as pieces of the moon and asteroids.
If Sharif is actually
the owner of the Meteoris, he can certainly afford it.
According to Daily
Pakistan, Sharif’s family owns assets estimated at a minimum of $1.4 billion --
apparently generated by their interests in steelmaking and paper mill businesses
as well as land in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the Middle East -- making them
the fourth-wealthiest clan in the country. Sharif also owns a bewildering array
of luxurious properties in Pakistan as well as stakes in companies from Lahore
to London.
Sharif, who spent
several years in the early 2000s in exile in Saudi Arabia, reportedly enjoys
contacts with high-level government and business figures in the kingdom.
Very few people in
Pakistan could possibly afford to purchase an indulgence like the Meteoris.
Pakistan, one of the poorest nations on earth, has an average annual per capita
income of about $1,257. At that rate, the average Pakistani wage-earner would
have to work almost 3,700 years to be able to purchase a Meteoris.
However, Meteoris is merely the world’s fifth-most-expensive timekeeper;
according to Rediff.com, the absolute priciest watch in the world is the
Chopard 201-Carat, which is listed at $25 million
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