New equipment: Airport Security Force demands Rs500m

Committee was informed that arms carried by personnel of ASF need to be replaced.

ISLAMABAD: The Airport Security Force (ASF) has demanded Rs500 million to replace its old weapons with the new ones. However, the demand has so far not been entertained by the ministry concerned, official sources said.

A senior official of the ASF recently briefed the National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence that the ASF possesses obsolete and outdated arms and ammunition, which poses a serious threat to the security of airports.

The committee was further informed that the arms carried by personnel of the ASF needed to be replaced with sophisticated weaponry to counter any security threat effectively.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 14^th,  2011.