Islamabad : Federal minister for health & regulations, Saira Afzal Tarar has divulged in Senate that Member National Assembly (MNA), Sahibzada Nazir Sultan took 30000 USD from national exchequer for his wife’s treatment in abroad. According to details, Sahibzada Nazir Sultan is MNA of ruling party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and also the Custodian of famous Hazrat Sultan Bahu shrine, where he used to collect huge amount in terms of ‘Nazrana’, his siblings has also been working at high ranks in the country.
The amount when translated into rupees amounted 3.2 million and 10 thousand taken from the money of poor tax payers.
Tarar while giving secret accounts in Upper House of the parliament did not brief about the nature of disease nor did she told the name of country from where the treatment was made.
Official documents revealed that medical board had recommended treatment of MNA’s wife from abroad, though, the reports failed to disclose location and name of hospital. According to law, the patient could only be referred to the other country when there would be no any facility of treatment for a specific disease but documents failed to provide further details. Treatment of MNA Rasheed Godil took 31.8 million rupees, federal minister Mushahidullah took 27.5 million rupees and 15000 USD has been spent on treatment of Ehsan Ghani.