Black Beauties sold expensive PM Khan's Buffalo auction turns into a PMLN Supporters and Nawaz Sharif love affair
Buffalo auction became the fun affair for the twitteratis for whole day.
(WebDesk) - The eight hugely voguish - PM House Buffalos - finally made their way out from Prime Minister House as dozens of buyers gathered for a buffalo auction in Islamabad, in the latest push for Prime Minister Imran Khan s highly publicised austerity drive.
A total of eight buffalos were auctioned off for nearly 2.3 million rupees.
"The auction was not just good. It was very, very good," said senator Javaid Iqbal, who oversaw the sale.
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An auctioneer shouted prices to a crowd carrying stacks of rupees in the residence s backyard, where the shiny, black buffalos for sale were tied to nearby trees.
The animals were purchased in 2014 by the government of former premier Nawaz Sharif. Supporters of PMLN Supremo flocked to the auction and paid several times the market price for a three of the black beauties at least.
"I bought a buffalo for 300,000 rupees, which is three times higher than the market price. But I am happy because it s a memory tied to my leader Nawaz Sharif," Malik Tayyib Nawaz told media.
PTI govt continued its austerity drive and auctioned 8 buffaloes kept at the PM House. The govt managed to raise more than PKR 2.3 million from the auction. The highest bid for a buffalo was PKR 385,000 and three of the cattle were bought by PML-N supporters.
This is how Buffalo auction became the fun affair of twitteratis for whole day while the PM House was auctioing the former Premier s Buffalos in line with their austerity drive.
— Gul Bukhari (@GulBukhari) September 27, 2018
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However, others at the auction complained of the high prices. "A common man like me cannot afford to buy them," said another man, who travelled to the event with the hope of netting a buffalo but left empty handed.
— Bashir Chaudhary (@Bashirchaudhry) September 27, 2018
— Hanif Vertejee (@Hanif98005542) September 27, 2018
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And many took to the twitter just to mock the whole buffalo auction process in a wake of PM’s austerity drive and termed it mere drama. PM Imran Khan in his early promises to the nation pledged to cut excessive government spending and build an Islamic welfare state in the impoverished South Asian nation
— kuldeep dahiya (@kdahiya75) September 27, 2018
— Asad Kayani (@AsadKay08145598) September 21, 2018
— Basit Saleem (@BasitSaleem14) September 27, 2018
— Khurram Abbas Bhatti (@KhurramBhatti01) September 18, 2018
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— Pervaiz Rashid (@PervaizRashid3) September 26, 2018
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— Khaleeq Kiani (@KhaleeqKiani) September 27, 2018
As part of the ongoing austerity drive, Pakistan has auctioned off dozens of luxury vehicles belonging to the prime minister s house and also launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a dam in the country s north.
