{"id":537810,"date":"2026-03-24T00:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=537810"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:35:13","slug":"pm-slaps-ban-on-use-of-high-octane-fuel-in-govt-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/pm-slaps-ban-on-use-of-high-octane-fuel-in-govt-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"PM slaps ban on use of high octane fuel in govt vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nPrime Minister (PM) Shahbaz Sharif has imposed ban on use of high octane fuel in government vehicles.<br \/>\nIn the perspective of continuity of decision of increase in petroleum levy on high octane fuel the PM while taking an important decision has slapped ban on use of high octane fuel in government vehicles. It stands implemented with immediate effect.<br \/>\nIt has been said in the statement stringent ban is there on use of high octane at government expenses. If its use becomes unavoidable in any department then the respective government officer will have to pay its price out of his own pocket for its use in vehicle.<br \/>\nAll the federal departments, authorities and subsidiaries have been directed to implement these orders with immediate effect.<br \/>\nIts objective is ensuring the use of national resources in effective, transparent and responsible way at every cost.<br \/>\nIt may be mentioned 50 percent cut in use of fuel in government vehicles has already been made and 60 percent vehicles have been grounded.<br \/>\nThe saving to be accrued from these steps will be spent on providing relief to the people and providing inexpensive oil to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Prime Minister (PM) Shahbaz Sharif has imposed ban on use of high octane fuel in government vehicles. In the perspective of continuity of decision of increase in petroleum levy on high octane fuel the PM while taking an important decision has slapped ban on use of high octane fuel in government vehicles. It stands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-537810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PM slaps ban on use of high octane fuel in govt vehicles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/pm-slaps-ban-on-use-of-high-octane-fuel-in-govt-vehicles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM slaps ban on use of high octane fuel in govt vehicles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISLAMABAD Prime Minister (PM) Shahbaz Sharif has imposed ban on use of high octane fuel in government vehicles. 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