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India-Pakistan
Rs60 million looted from Qatari minister in Balochistan
2012-02-10
[Dawn] Unidentified gunnies on Thursday looted around Rs 60 million from a Qatari minister in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province, DawnNews reported.

According to levies sources, Qatar's petroleum minister Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Thani Al-Thani was on a hunting trip in Turbat when the armed myrmidons stopped his car and got away with the loot.

Sheikh Ali is a member of the supreme council of the royal family of Qatar.

The assistant commissioner of Turbat had initiated an investigating into the incident and no arrests had been reported yet.

According to an earlier Dawn report from last year, at least 25 special permits had been issued to dignitaries belonging to the Arabian peninsula allowing them to hunt the internationally protected houbara bustard.

The dignitaries were allotted several different locations in Pakistain. Sheikh Ali was allotted the Turbat district in Balochistan.
Posted by:Fred

#1  1 Pakistani rupee = 0.0110 US dollars

So Rs 60,000,000 x 0.0110 $/Rs = $660,000

This seems a large sum for walking-around money, but I'm not an oil country government minister
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-02-10 08:52  

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