Pervaiz Khattak spent Rs2.6 million on entertainment and bakery items (THE NEWS)

[Ro Imran Ro]

ISLAMABAD: While Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan is vehemently preaching austerity and end to VIP culture, his chief minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Pervaiz Khattak has spent Rs2.6 million of the public money on entertainment and bakery items alone during the last one year, The News has learnt.

According to documents provided by the KP Chief Minister’s House, an amount of Rs22.8 million was spent from August 1, 2013 to August 31, 2014 by the CM House under various heads.The official figures were provided in response to an information request filed by this correspondent under the KPK Right to Information (RTI) Act 2013.

The statement of month-wise expenditure of the Chief Minister’s House revealed that an amount of Rs2,556,491 was spent on entertainment and bakery items during the above-mentioned period. The total amount spent on only bakery items remained Rs565,240 while the entertainment cost the national exchequer an amount of Rs1,991,728.The official figures also disclosed that an amount of Rs10.1 million was spent by the KP Chief Minister’s House on electricity bills while gas bills accounted for Rs1.7 million.

The telephone expenses for the same period remained Rs381,274 while an amount of Rs7,966,491 was spent on salaries of the staff.The official response also testified that no gift had been presented to any guest/person by the chief minister KP during the period.


It is pertinent to mention here that this scribe has also forwarded an information request to Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif about the break-up of expenses during the period from August 2013 to August 2014 under the Punjab Transparency and Right to Information (RTI) Act 2013. Although, the request to Punjab Chief Minister House was also sent on the same day when the KP Chief Minister’s House was requested about the information, so far no response has been given by the Punjab government.

The News filed the information request to both the KP and Punjab CM houses on 18th September 2013. Under the Punjab RTI Act 2013, the officials have to respond to an information request within 14 working days.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-33536-KP-CM-spends-Rs26m-on-entertainment-bakery-items

 

[ashiqahasan]

News is from Gang And Geo Group so it's not an authentic. It can be fabricated as this group usually does !!!

 

[Not_Guilty]

 

[ashiqahasan]

News is from Gang And Geo Group so it's not an authentic. It can be fabricated as this group usually does !!!

 

[Not_Guilty]

 

[Raaz]

یہ کب سے بٹ ہو گیا ؟؟؟

 

[deathchallenger]

Pathan ghurbaat mein mar haye hai aur yeh ********* banda Bakery Items khaa raha hai. Wah o Nya Pakistan. Fite mou aisay Naye Pakistan par.

 

[msaeed89]

26 lakh rupay poray sal ka kharcha bakery or entertainment item per but failed to mention the details, may be this expense was for people visiting him in official capacity at CM house and for that matter this amount is unbelievably low...we know if it is from Geo and Jang it will be against PTI, they don't bother to do any news on daily expeneses of Nawaz and Shahbaz spending, but Gadarya watan Media group can only be used by Noon for propogandaaa..

 

[210akash]

Jo bills pay huye ha un ko bhe deakha do , The news.

 

[Arfeen Bhatti]

Very Good , thats people's empowerment , RTI & RTS will bring huge change as soon as more and more people come to know about it and use it,

Abhi to Ehtisaab Commission baaqi hay meray dost , InshAllah phir sahi dor lgay gi haram khoron ki & kaam choron ki

Welldone , Imran Khan & PTI

 

[GreenMaple]

If true then it means that 'Right to Information' act in KPK is working, and something for KPK government to make it better

 

[Citizen X]

Well if it is true then I would like the hear if this expense is justified or not, with the way the things are in Pakistan and how much inflation is this could be considered not a very huge amount when to come to think about it. A year of running the CM house has the same expense as the price of two Land Cruisers ( 10 million ). When you put it into those terms it really doesn't seem that much. But having said that why is the not the official document provided by the KPK govt published ? When the source is clearly mentioned why not print the original document ? Being The News I suspect there is something extremely fishy in this article.

Also I would love to see the expense of running CM house in Sindh, Balouchistan and Punjab so we can do a fair comparison. How ever having said that I'm sure even this can be cut down.

But the bigger news within the news is that KP govt promptly provided the information under law if it had something to hide it would not. When at the same time Punjab govt did not under a law itself created and I can 100% be sure it will never be releases. And that shows KPK govt is working and following the rule of law.

 

[Pak1stani]

This expenditure is for whole 1 year while one other hand Patwaris president spent 2 million just for his photo

 

[MunchyMike]

Showbaz probably spends this much in a day. What is cost of PM and
President house of 1 day?

 

[tijaz]

Well if you divide the bakery amount over 365 days it comes to Rs 1548 per day and Enertainment and bakery amount comes to Rs.7000 per day. Now how is that expensive for a PM office?

This report actually favours IK's stance. Way to go RTI.

 

[Uxi Ali]

Lo bhai yeh to LOL ho gaya!!!

Aik taraf woh boltay hain k Chief Minister KPK saara din Islamabad main bheta hota hai, phir usi ki picture laga kar boltay hain k woh Bakery Items kha rha hai.. jb woh wahan hai hi nhi, to yeh bakery items aakhir kha kon rha hai??

And wat was that last part about RTI Act being implemented in KPK and not in Punjab... yeh tum ne badla hai Punjab Showbaaz!!

 

[miafridi]

If true then it means that 'Right to Information' act in KPK is working, and something for KPK government to make it better

I was about to say the same thing.:)

 

[Zoyaa]

This expenditure is for whole 1 year while one other hand Patwaris president spent 2 million just for his photo

Photographer must have spent 2 millions to use 'Fair and Lovely' typical whitening cream just to make President look better for the photo.
Otherwise there is no reason to spend that much money just for his photo.

 

[MunchyMike]

Mota Nawaja factory has not paid electricity bill for his factory,
total bill is more than 40 million rupees! They havn't even paid
electricity bills of PM and President house as well.

 

[MunchyMike]

The Govt. and Nawaz Lobby is looting the common man. Nawaz Sharif's factory "Ittefaq Foundries" has defaulted on electricity bills of Rs 40,436,412.00 since the last 8 Years!, Yet it continues to be supplied with electricity. The Prime Minister House and President's House have defaulted for Millions to, but their electricity is not cut.

Strong businessmen and politicians are stealing Rs 384 Billion of Electricity, yet their electricity supply is uninterrupted.

Therefore I stand for the rights of the oppressed, of the poor farmers who cannot pay their electricity bills by refusing to pay electricity bills.

Until we stand up all for our rights, the rulers will continue to rip off the nation.