Pakistani senators gift gold-plated gun to Saudi crown prince

Having undertaken his first South Asian visit, Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman signed several investment pacts during the visit. He was gifted with gold-plated machine gun after his announcement of investment worth 20 billion USD. He was also honoured with title Nishan-e-Pakistan(order of Pakistan).

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa greeted Prince Mohammed on the red carpet of a military airport in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, before Khan personally drove the crown prince to the capital Islamabad.

Cash-strapped and in need of friends, Pakistan welcomed the crown prince with open arms and in grandiose fashion, including sending fighter jets to guide his incoming plane once it entered Pakistani airspace.

Islamabad has shown appreciation by treating Prince Mohammed’s trip as the biggest state visit since Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2015, soon after Beijing announced plans to invest tens of billions of dollars on infrastructure in Pakistan as part of China’s global Belt and Road initiative.

-with input from agencies