Islamabad: In startling revelation, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif claimed that Pakistani bureaucrat’s daughter received Rs 720 million at her wedding in salaami-tradition of parents, relatives and guests gifting money to bride and groom.

He claimed that whopping Rs 1.2 billion were collected in salaami at wedding of first daughter of same bureaucrat, who he said is grade 21 public servant. “Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi personally told me that he went to wedding of bureaucrat’s daughter. A person from his constituency was collecting salaami,” Asif said during a session of National Assembly on Friday. “Elahi asked him how much have you collected till now, to which he replied ‘Rs720 million and counting’. He was stuffing money into shopping bag,” he told Parliament.

He claimed that Rs 1.2 billion were collected as salaami on wedding of another daughter of same bureaucrat, an amount that excludes jewellery and cars gifted to bride.

Published in The Daily National Courier, February, 27 2023

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