{"id":105971,"date":"2026-04-01T14:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=105971"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:37:27","slug":"punjab-govt-bans-on-purchase-of-petrol-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/automobile\/punjab-govt-bans-on-purchase-of-petrol-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt bans on purchase of petrol vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government has taken a big decision and banned the purchase of<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-govt-bans-procurement-of-petrol-vehicles\/\"> petrol vehicles<\/a> for government departments.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Finance Minister Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has announced that the provincial government has banned the purchase of petrol-powered vehicles for government departments.<\/p>\n<p>He said that now only hybrid or electric vehicles will be purchased in government institutions and the government is taking steps to promote the use of electric vehicles in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister said that if the global situation, especially the war situation, continues, the government will have no other option but to increase the prices of petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the government tried to reduce fuel consumption, but no significant steps were taken in this regard at the public level.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the situation in Pakistan, he said that the country is facing an increase in fuel consumption of 7 to 10 percent every week, and if this trend continues, an increase in petrol prices may be inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government has taken a big decision and banned the purchase of petrol vehicles for government departments. Punjab Finance Minister Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has announced that the provincial government has banned the purchase of petrol-powered vehicles for government departments. He said that now only hybrid or electric vehicles will be purchased in government institutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":92637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14342],"tags":[39112],"class_list":["post-105971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automobile","tag-govt-ban-on-purchase-of-petrol-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105974,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105971\/revisions\/105974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}