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At a time when Pakistan is under immense global pressure on terrorism, the country’s cash-strapped government has gifted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman a gold-plated assault rifle, a media report said.
The unusual gift for a visiting foreign dignitary was presented to Mohammad during his first official visit to Islamabad.
The News International reported that Pakistan’s Senate delegation called on the Crown Prince at the Prime Minister’s House where Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani gifted him a portrait and a gold-plated gun.
The Prince is also Saudi Arabia’s defence minister.
Similar gesture
In a similar gesture from the cash-rich kingdom in January, Saudi Prince Fahd Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, also the Tabuk Governor, presented a gift of ‘gold Kalashnikov’ and bullets to Prime Minister Khan at the Prime Minister’s Office here.
Khan had thanked him for the gold-plated Russian gun.
The Saudi Crown Prince’s just-concluded high-profile visit to Islamabad came in the midst of heightened tensions between India and Pakistan following one of the worst terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir in which 40 CRPF soldiers were killed. The attack was carried out by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad.
The international community led by the US has pressed Pakistan to deny safe haven to terror groups operating form its soil and bring the perpetrators of the Pulwama attack to justice.
Confers award
Pakistan on Monday conferred its highest civilian award Nishan-e-Pakistan on Salman for his “outstanding support” in reinvigorating the ties between the two countries.
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