The details of bulletproof and other VIP vehicles given to high officials with the approval of the Prime Minister have been presented in the upper house of the Parliament of Pakistan, according to which a total of 32 people have been given official bulletproof or other VIP vehicles with the approval of the Prime Minister. are given
It has been told by the government in the Senate that 14 high-ranking officials have VIP bulletproof vehicles, including former Prime Minister Imran Khan and former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.
Apart from this, Speaker National Assembly and Chairman Senate also have VIP bulletproof vehicles.
The government has also given an official bullet-proof vehicle to Supreme Court Justice Syed Mazahir Ali Naqvi, while Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja also has a bullet-proof VIP vehicle.
According to official records, with the approval of the Prime Minister, Special Assistant Attaullah Tarrar, former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi also has a bulletproof VIP vehicle.
Deputy Speaker Zahid Akram Durrani, former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, Federal Ministers Asad Mehmood, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Rana Sanaullah are among those who have bulletproof VIP vehicles.
Interestingly, Chairman Public Accounts Committee Noor Alam Khan and Home Secretary have also been given a VIP bulletproof vehicle.
Apart from these bullet proof vehicles, 18 other VIP vehicles have also been given to high officials.
Among the people who have been given these vehicles are federal ministers Sajid Turi, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Murtaza Javed Abbasi, Rana Tanveer Hussain, Asrar Tareen and Agha Hassan.
According to the list, Federal Ministers Ahsan Iqbal, Abdul Qadir Patel, Khawaja Asif, Tariq Bashir Cheema, Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Azam Nazeed Tarar and Qamar Zaman Kaira also have VIP vehicles.
Federal Ministers Shah Zain Bugti and Abdul Wasi also have official VIP vehicles.
Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Raja Riaz and Leader of Opposition in Senate Yousaf Raza Geelani also have VIP vehicles. Apart from this, Ahad Cheema, advisor to the Prime Minister, has a VIP car.
The Senate was told that there are 54 bulletproof and soft skin vehicles in the vehicle pool of the Cabinet Division. These vehicles perform protocol duties with foreign delegations.
The Senate was told that during the last two years, about Rs 80 crore was spent on repairs and petrol for VIP and bulletproof vehicles.
The House was told that Rs.63.9 million was spent on repairing the VIP vehicles while Rs.1.28 million was spent on petrol for these vehicles.
The details of the expenses incurred on the helicopter of former Prime Minister Imran Khan were also presented in the House.
The Senate was told that the former prime minister completed 1,579 VVIP mission hours in helicopters between January 2019 and March 2022.
According to the records, in 2019, Imran Khan’s helicopter flew 479 hours of VVIP flight, which cost 13.19 million rupees, while in 2020, Imran Khan’s helicopter flew 522 hours of VVIP flight, which cost Rs. 14 crore 35 lakh rupees incurred.
In the year 2021, Imran Khan’s helicopter made 450 hours of VVIP flight at a cost of 12.38 million rupees.
The House was told that from January to March this year, Imran Khan’s helicopter flew for 127 hours as a VVIP, which cost Rs 3.51 million.
