Ashraf, who took office on Friday, has moved into the premier’s official residence. The private home of Pakistan’s new prime minister may be furnished with a helipad at government expense to save police securing the 14-mile road trip from the capital, officials said Tuesday.
Police told AFP that helipads are customary additions to private residences as part of “VVIP” security arrangements in a country where Taliban insurgents attack repeatedly and Osama bin Laden lived undetected for a decade, according to one of his wives.
But critics lashed out at the arrangements as “disappointing” after Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said his first priority would be to resolve crippling power cuts that leave millions without electricity for up to 18 hours a day.
Ashraf, who took office on Friday, has moved into the premier’s official residence but like previous incumbents is expected to spend weekends at his private home, a mansion in Gujjar Khan, 23 kilometres south of the capital.
“Senior officials visited the site on Monday to review security arrangements. A site has already been selected for the helipad and its construction will commence very soon,” one police official told AFP.
He declined to speculate on the expense, but said the helipad would save police from “the hassle” of finding personnel to man a staggering 300 security points that would otherwise be needed between Islamabad and Gujjar Khan.
President Asif Ali Zardari, is famously so nervous about security that he travels by helicopter even on the short distance to the airport.
But other officials said a helipad was just one of a number of proposals being considered for the premier’s security and that there was no final decision.
Critics said it would send the wrong message when millions live in poverty, financial crisis could force Pakistan back to the IMF and relations with Washington are on the brink.
“He is enjoying all the perks of his position while ignoring the country’s economic problems,” said a spokesman for the main opposition PML-N party, Siddiqul Farooq.
“It’s a waste of money. It’s not surprising that a helipad is being made – that is how Pakistani prime ministers behave,” said political commentator Hasan Askari.
Opinions of Pakistan’s rulers “will not change until they perform,” he added.
Ashraf is a controversial choice for prime minister.
The Supreme Court last week dismissed his predecessor, Yousaf Raza Gilani, for contempt for refusing to reopen corruption cases against the president. Ashraf only took office after a judge issued an arrest warrant for the first suggested replacement.
He faces corruption allegations from his tenure as water and power minister, and many believe he will be forced out soon – either by early elections or the judiciary.
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Waah Raja rental… is he aware how difficuilt helicopters are to fly, how vulnerable they are to ground fire and how it will only anger the people even more.
What a stupid decision… 
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:hinna:
Raja Perwaiz's home will be equipped with hellipad!
Ab home to parliament is jus seconds away....
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U seem to be surprised … now that suprises me 
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What's surprising.. or shocking, should I say... was how Raja sahab, Rehman Malik etc were listening to Altaf Hussain's retardedness on the phone with such adb-o-ehtraam, cheering and clapping for him n all. How a lowlife who doesn't even reside in Pakistan gets to have so much control over Pakistani politicians and policies, I fail to understand.
Raja Perwaiz's home will be equipped with hellipad!
I think ppl fear MQM,they are bound to do so no other way !
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We Are Screwed!
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Is this heli-pad going to be available for rent? :D
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is helipad going to save money? 
maybe after few years there will be an airport exclusively made for our PM/President!
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Hiring and paying hundreds of policemen to guard the road would thrust millions of rupees directly into lower-income families in Pakistan, and be a form of economic stimulus.
Instead, that money will go to a company owned by the wealthy, continuing to keep money out of the hands of the poor.
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So it begains...
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You mean kings.
The more I look at it, the more it seems Pakistan is a diarchy - a kingdom ruled by two kings. Maybe even more when your bring in the army, religious fanatics, jageerdars and industrialists.
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hmmmmmm.
ab raja riaz b gaye ga main udda udda jawan hwa de naal.
Is this heli-pad going to be available for rent? :D
. He will rent his heli only to his tabbar!
. Yes it begun that is why I thought to make a thread on our new PM…
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A party of beggars.
UK prime minister congratulated Raja Rental Hellipad, and invited him to visit UK, and Raja accepted! Hes an 8 month PM at best, and he has already planned a UK visit. From what I can remember, Gilani recently went for a weeklong trip to the UK back in April, didnt he? I guess Harrods called. Gilani forgot some of Zardari's shopping bags, so Raja Rental is now going to go to pick those up.
Raja Perwaiz's home will be equipped with hellipad!
Wonder how this man will look...he has no personally and no character as well,..
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Uff we are such jelly beans. And very na-shukray.
The helipad will save the poor ordinary folk from traffic jams due to VIP movement. He’s doing us a favour. 
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err...that news item is false. One his house is in F-8 and near the main road going to Faisal Mosque. None of the houses built in that area have the structural integrity to house a helipad on the roof and secondly the property is not big enough to house a helipad.
So yeah false news.