The assets declared by the ruling elites of the Sindh and Punjab assemblies demonstrate the laughably pitiful attitude of Pakistan parliamentarians to hide their wealth details.
The Election Commission of Pakistan has made public the asset details of the ‘filthy rich’ ruling elites of the two provincial assemblies, in which they sound quite ‘timid’ in revealing their otherwise aristocratic lifestyles.
Despite the fact that Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has assets worth over 175 million rupees in the United Kingdom, including a 146-million-rupee mortgaged property there, no record of his believably big assets in Saudi Arabia is provided in his assets returns.
Perhaps the huge brigade of vehicles parked at his Raiwand residence are just ‘delusional’ entities, as according to the asset details with the ECP, Shahbaz actually owns only one car ‘gifted’ to him, 2006 model Toyota Land Cruiser.
On the other hand, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah conveniently managed to conceal the actual worth of his land details by attaching a two-line note right at the top of his assets returns which read: “These represent costs/valuations made by government agencies several years ago. No fresh valuations are available.”
The value of the imported bullet proof Toyota Land Cruiser that belongs to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s son Abdul Qadir Gilani, according to his assets returns, is 128 million rupees.
He has 500 tolas of gold that value 13 million rupees, according to the asset details with the ECP, but considering the current market price of gold being 49,110 rupees per tola, the 500 tolas of gold do not value less than 24 million rupees, The Nation reports.
The ‘poorest’ parliamentarians include Shazia Mari, Faisal Sabzwari, Nadia Gabol, Farah Deeba and several others, who do not have any movable or immovable property registered in their names, and are perhaps leading their ‘miserable’ lives with sheer reliance either on petty savings, small investments or some divine intervention!
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