3rd world country president spent $5,000 per night in U.S.

The security staff of 10 people included: Brig Muhammad Iftikhar Mansoor (DG security), Lt-Col Babar Mumtaz (chief security officer of the president), Lt-Col Adil Rehmani (security officer), Gul Khan Bhounar (security officer), Hav Muhammad Jamil (security officer), Lance Naik Gul Zameen (security officer), Sepoy Tahir Azam (security officer), Lance Naik Abar Ali (security officer), Muhammad Habib Sultan (security officer) and Sepoy Sajid Hussain Shah (security officer).

The officials from the Foreign Office included: Attiya Mehmood (addl secretary Americas), M Haroon Shaukat (addl secretary Afghanistan and ECO), Nasir Ali Khan (ambassador at large), Ghalib Iqbal (chief of protocol), Ameer Khurram Rathore (FMO director), Muhammad Amjad Aziz Qazi (deputy chief of protocol), Imran Ali Chaudhry (director Americas), Adeel Ahmed Khan (protocol officer) and Nadeem Hotiana (DPIO).

The officials from other departments included: Khurshid Anwar Butt (joint DG/in-charge Advance Security Team), Malik Zahoor Ahmed (NAPHIS DG), Rashid Bashir Mazari (interior joint secretary), Col Hammad (staff officer), Ashiq Saleem (Advance Security Team), Muhammad Sajjad Haider (FIA deputy director), Muhammad Farhan Zahid (SP/ICT) and Abdul Majid Aasi (NCMC AD).

The official media team included: Shazia Sikander (PTV reporter, team leader), Salahuddin Malik (PTV cameraman), Abdul Ghaffar (PTV engineer), Syed Anwarul Hasan (PTV reporter), Khurshid Naqvi (PTV cameraman), Anwar Naseem (PTV engineer), Muhammad Tariq (PID photographer), Syed Adnan Ali Rizvi (PID photographer), Javed Akhtar (APP director news), Ilyas Chaudhry (APP reporter), Tariq Hameed (APP cameraman), Zain Ali Javed (APP engineer) and Fakhar Abbas Qamer (Radio Pakistan).

The Pakistan embassy booklet revealed that Zardari stayed in the Thomas Jefferson Suite (Room No 610, nearly 3,000 square feet, listed rate US$4,199 per night plus $608 tax) and Bilawal took the Abraham Lincoln Suite (Room No 605, 1,425 square feet, listed rate US$2,299 per night plus $333 tax) of the Willard Intercontinental Hotel at Pennsylvania Avenue, respectively. These suites are on the 6th floor.

Others who stayed on the same floor included: Mr and Mrs Husain Haqqani (Room 612); Kamal Majidullah, special assistant to the prime minister on water resources, (Room No 626); Lt-Gen (retd) Syed Athar Ali, secretary defence (Room No 624); Farhatulah Babar (Room No 622); Zafar Altaf, PARC chairman, (Room No 641); Murtaza Solangi (Room No 642); Maj-Gen Tasawwar Hussain (Room No 616); Brig Mian Muhammad Hilal Hussain (Room No 614); Cdr Amir Saeed (Room No 618); Sqn Ldr Malik Jalal Farooq (Room No 600); Saifullah (Room No 630); Mushtaq Ahmed (Room No 619); Brig Muhammad Iftikhar Mansoor (Room No 623); Lt-Col Babar Mumtaz (Room No 625); Lt-Col Adil Rehmani (Room No 628); Gul Khan Bhounar (Room No 601); Hawaldar Muhammad Jamil and Lance Naik Gul Zameen (Room No 627); Sepoy Tahir Azam and Lance Naik Akbar Ali (Room No 629); Sepoy Muhammad Habib Sultan and Sepoy Sajid Hussain Shah (Room No 631); Attiya Mehmood (Room No 626); M Haroon Shaukat (Room No 632); Ghalib Iqbal (Room No 620); and Muhammad Amjad Aziz Qazi (Room No 634). The ISI DG got Room No 523 on the 5th floor. The IB DG was in Room No 528 and Ministers Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Room No 510, Nazar Muhammad Gondal in Room No 515, Rehman Malik in Room No 500, Qamar Zaman Kaira in Room No 544 and Shaukat Tarin in Room No 508.

The Capital Suite (Room No 640) was reserved for presidential meetings. Rooms 643 and 644 were taken by the Pakistan embassy as the camp office. Other than these 62 members of the presidential delegation, several members of the private media were also in Washington at government expense. They stayed at different hotels and travelled separately, but were paid by the government to cover the visit.

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