ISLAMABAD: President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi has confessed giving bribe inthe past to get his job done.
He said this while addressing a ceremony on the occasion of National VotersDay.
Revealing that he had to pay Rs50,000 in bribe to have an analoguetelephone installed in the 1970s, the president said: “When I became adentist, I got a telephone installed. You will be astonished to hear thatin those days, this was in the 1970s, Rs50,000 went in bribe only for thetelephone’s installation”.
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President Alvi stressed on the promotion of e-voting in order to ensuretransparent elections. “When I brought a petition to the CEC in 2013, therewere nearly 50 or 60 polling stations where there were no presidingofficers or ballot boxes had reached because of terror. And this is fromKarachi,” he said.
