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Rs.1b spent on Nawaz Sharif’s foreign trips during 3rd term as prime minister!

ISLAMABAD: Senate has been told today by FM that deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s foreign trips during his third term had cost the exchequer more than Rs.1b!

FM in a written statement, furnished at the Senate upon the request of PTI, told that Sharif travelled abroad 64 times while in office.

According to his report in 2013 Sharif went out of the country ten times, eleven times in 2014, 23 times in 2015, nine times in 2016 and again 9 times in 2017.

Countries he visited frequently are: Saudi Arabia (7 times), USA (6 times – 4 times to attend UNGA), China (4 times).

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.