Tag: Islamabad Club
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No room for your second or third wife at Islamabad Club
In an interesting development, the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Divisions debated diverse topics this week, including the Cabinet Division’s luxuries, restrictions on the entry of its members’ second wives into the Islamabad Club, and Chahat Fateh Ali Khan’s charisma. The committee was informed that the Cabinet Division had 18 bullet-proof vehicles and six helicopters,…
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No suit, no service; Islamabad club will not entertain you if you’re wearing a dhoti
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Member National Assembly (MNA) and member Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Sheikh Rohail Asghar was denied service at the Islamabad Club for wearing a Dhoti, the traditional Punjabi attire. Expressing his anger, Asghar said, “Shalwar Kameez is our national dress and Dhoti a cultural dress. If I don’t wear a suit, then…
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‘Humble Gen Bajwa waits in line for omelette brunch at Islamabad Club’, meets PML-N’s Zubair again
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa had Sunday brunch with his family at Islamabad Club and freely mingled up with other guests present there, The News has reported. According to the report as well as a letter to a local English daily by an eyewitness, the army chief of the world’s tenth…
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Islamabad Club pays govt Rs3 per acre in rent
The Islamabad Club that stretches over 352 acres of land leased to it by the government over half a century ago pays only Rs3 per acre (an acre is equal to 8 kanal) as rent. The lease agreement signed between the club administration and the government 53 years ago was supposed to be renewed after…