Pakistan paid UK MP £135,000 for promoting Kashmir case
(the money was returned so this is a non-story really)
May 11 2011,
indianexpress.com
Pakistan government paid British parliamentarian George Galloway 135,000 pounds from a secret fund for promoting its case on the Kashmir issue, according to information provided to a Parliamentary panel. The revelation was made yesterday when the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly or lower house of Parliament examined an audit report. Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, who attended the meeting of the PAC, said the issue could not be discussed before the media present at the venue. He said the audit report involved the Foreign Ministry's secret fund and should not be taken up at an open forum.
The PAC was informed that 135,000 pounds had been refunded by Galloway, then a member of the British Parliament. The amount was paid to him from the "Pakistan projection fund" by the Pakistan High Commission in London but it was never credited to the government account.
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I'm sure this story will have some legs... even though it seems a pile of nonsense.
