ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan is scheduled to visit Switzerland on a 3-day visit to attend the World Economic Forum on 21st January.
The prime minister will depart for Davos to the World Economic Forum in the upcoming week with the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Davos trip of Imran Khan is estimated as the most economical trip in the last 1o years. According to the Press Information Department (PID), the next month’s annual World Economic Forum (WEF) summit in Switzerland will cost $68,000, whereas the previous Prime Ministers doled out huge sums of money on their trips.
The expenditure of the three-day visit to Davos is being reduced from the national exchequer. The total expense cost public funds $762,199 during the tenure of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) when former prime minister Nawaz Sharif attended the summit in 2017.
A delegation led former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi spent $561,381 separately, and $459,451 was spent during the tenure of Pakistan Peoples Party when former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani attend the summit in 2012.
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The PID statement has further stated that cutting down the expenditure was the prime minister’s orders. He has directed the authorities to further cut down expenses on his foreign trips.
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