Rs88m has been allocated by the interim Punjab government to refurbish the helipad at PM Shehbaz’s Lahore residence, Model Town, according to the reports.
Punjab Cabinet Standing Committee on Law and Order (SCCLO) has allocated Rs88m for helipad at PM Shehbaz’s Lahore residence, despite the premier’s calls for national austerity in the face of a devastating economic crisis.
The money will be moved from a block allocation of the home department into the Lahore Deputy Commissioner’s Asaan Assignment Account.
In late March, the deputy commissioner informed the SCCLO about the approximate cost of pavement, control room, lighting system, generators, and civil works for the helipad.
The federal government is frantically trying to restart the halted IMF loan programme as foreign exchange reserves continue to decline, severely harming the import sector.
Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is a Pakistani politician and businessman who is currently serving as the 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan, in office since 11 April 2022. He is the current president of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N). Previously in his political career, he served as the Chief Minister of Punjab three times, making him the longest-serving Chief Minister of Punjab.
Shehbaz was born on 23 September 1951 into a Punjabi-speaking Kashmiri family in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. His father, Muhammad Sharif, was an upper-middle-class businessman and industrialist whose family had emigrated from Anantnag in Kashmir for business, and eventually settled in the village of Jati Umra in Amritsar district, Punjab, at the beginning of the twentieth century.
