Government of Pakistan has apparently given up all hopes of Etisalat paying $800 million for the shares the latter had bought in PTCL back in 2005.
This was hinted in Pakistan’s budget documents, where unlike all previous years, government didn’t include $800 million — to be recovered from Etisalat — as its non-tax revenue for year 2016-17.
While ProPakistani’s efforts for asking the viewpoint of government were unsuccessful, there are three possible possibilities of what might have happened:
Option 1: Pakistan marked it a bad debt to write it off, instead of including it in the annual revenues for the 12th consecutive year.
Option 2: Government reached an agreement with Etisalat but didn’t tell anyone. And that this $800 million was probably waived off.
Option 3: Government forgot to add the recoverables in next year’s revenue, and that whatever we are thinking is just out of proportion.
We will continue to ask the government about what has actually happened and will let you know of the outcome.
Meanwhile, What do you think might have happened here?
I can’t imagine Etisalat getting away with $800 million from Pakistanis.
Then don’t because they already did get away :D
Does anybody know about where KMQ is?
He is probably going to Aamir Liaqat’s Inaam Ghar these days :D
Ain’t you missing him? I miss him on the forum. He should come back n avoid such notorious shows.
Was kidding about the show, he is surely missed.
$400 million main deal done ho chuki hai already. Panama k aik bank account main raqm maujoood hai. You are a journalist, go investigate.
They did it legally! Why blame Etisalat? Why not the idiot who signed the deal terms?
Well they are trying to delay it legally or waiting for process completion of property transfer….
u should just keep in mind Mr dar and his children have properties in UAE for no reason….
Af course they didn’t it was ishaaq Dollor who got 400$ million in his account, and waiwed remaining $400 million. It was tax payers money that was lost. nobody cares.
you idiot it was Musharraf government and Ishaq Dar wasn’t FM then.
is mulk ka qanoon gareeb k liye aur aur taqatwar k liye aur hai…..
You cannot get waived off 100 rupees but easily can take USD$800 Millions. Waoo our beautiful law.
You cannot get waived off 100 rupees but easily can take USD$800 Millions. Waoo our beautiful law.
Vote Kisko diya tha?
diya tu kisi insaan ko bachy ko tha..
Paka insaan ka bacha tha ya wo tha jisky bary me opar wala comment kiya hy (taqatwar)?
Huge bribes, what else.
Who was going to stop them? Govt? Maybe tax the number of Etisalat Employees who fly Business Class on Etihad from Abu Dhabi to Islamabad (400 PKR? a flight?) Debit paid off in 2 years.
Pehly Etisalat ko khoob jee bhar k khaya ha hamari govt and employees ny or jb unko samjh i ha k hamari itny ke thukk gai ha to bhaagty bhaagty ab unko 800 million ka choona b lagany ka soch rahi ha hamari govt
How is it Etisalat’s fault? Why not blame the department that signed a deal with them that said any property owned by PTCL will be transferred to them? And then around 131 major properties out of 3400 were not transferred.
Etisalats legally doing this and as a business why should they not? Blame the idiot who signed the deal terms!
Instafone license needs to be restored immediately. They defaulted on their mobile license but got shut down. If PTCL is not shutdown, then Instafone needs to be reinstated.
Good one atleast ptcl is improved after privatization very much. I don’t care if they give money or not ptcl was useless garbage before Etisalat.
they kind of still are behind all other competitors in terms of quality of service.
Yeh aaya nooni patwari :P
PTA should suspend Etisalat’s license till they sign an agreement to pay this long pending amount of $800 million. To make it easier for Etisalat, govt can spread the payment over 2-3 years.
What about Pakistans Biggest THIEF ZARDARI No body quoting his name He took largest Loan in 68 years of Pakistans life and Not a single Metro and took all money.Has to his credit 2 corrupt Prime Ministers , Shargil Memon, Muzaffar Tappi and 100 of other Front men to his credit