'Bulletproof' Mercedes rip-off

ISLAMABAD – Massive irregularities were committed in the notorious deal of some 35-bulletproof Mercedes cars during the dictatorial rule of former president Pervez Musharraf, reliable sources confided to TheNation.
The sources informed that former prime minister Shaukat Aziz had finalised a deal of importing bulletproof vehicles with a Japanese company. 7 bulletproof Mercedes cars amounting to Rs. 350 million, and then even more expensive 28 Mercedes cars were imported from Japan, without devising any appropriate strategy regarding the purchase, for the use of the President and PM of a country already in a horrible economic crisis due to unemployment, poverty and foreign loans.
“Once the vehicles were imported, to check the quality of these vehicles in the presence of Shaukat Aziz and Pervez Musharraf a security official was asked to fire at the windscreen of all seven Mercedes and the said official fired at the vehicles with the help of his Short Machine Gun (SMG)”, however, it was proved that bullets could not be pierced but it cracked the pain of the vehicles, sources informed, adding that after that strange exercise all 7 vehicles were distributed among the Ministers.
Interestingly, after the payment of the hefty amount from national exchequer another problem with these vehicles was found as they could not run smoothly due to heavy weight, it was held.
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira is also using one of those 7 vehicles, which was earlier used by Senate Chairman Mian Muhammad Soomro and Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, the sources said.