Two days after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister (CM) Sohail Afridi’s complaints regarding bulletproof vehicles, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has redirected the same to Balochistan on the request of CM Sarfraz Bugti.
“It is an appeal to the interior minister that if the KP government is refusing to take the bulletproof vehicles, they should be transferred to the Balochistan government so that terrorism can be countered effectively,” Bugti said in a post on X after his KP counterpart Afridi blamed the “flawed policy” of the federal government for the resurgence of terrorism in the province.
خیبرپختونخواہ کی طرح بلوچستان بھی دہشت گردی سے متاثر ہے۔ وزیر داخلہ @MohsinNaqvi42 سے درخواست ہے کہ اگر خیبرپختونخواہ حکومت بلٹ پروف گاڑیاں لینے سے انکار کر رہی ہے تو انہیں حکومت بلوچستان کو منتقل کر دیا جائے تاکہ دہشت گردی کا مؤثر مقابلہ کیا جاسکے ۔
— Sarfraz Bugti (@PakSarfrazbugti) October 21, 2025
He had alleged that the federal government was not providing KP the funds allocated for war against terrorism and that the bulletproof cars provided by Naqvi were “defective and old”.
With CM Afridi going on to say that the vehicles in question “should be recalled”, and CM Bugti requesting the same instead, maintaining that his province was also affected by terrorism, Naqvi on Wednesday responded to the Balochistan chief executive’s post.
CM Sahib done. These bullet-proof vehicles will be sent to Balochistan immediately to enhance counter-terrorism efforts. Thank you for raising this https://t.co/M8Hzc4UoAB
— Mohsin Naqvi (@MohsinnaqviC42) October 22, 2025
“CM sahib, done. These bulletproof vehicles will be sent to Balochistan immediately to enhance counter-terrorism efforts. Thank you for raising this,” he said on X.
A day earlier, Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry had also reacted to the KP CM’s claims, alleging that the provincial government had returned the vehicles to avoid “fighting terrorism”.
At a press conference in Islamabad, he had asserted that the vehicles provided to KP were fully equipped with bulletproof and bombproof features, maintaining that the vehicles were previously used by the interior minister himself.
Meanwhile, KP Governor Faisal Karim Kundi had said that the province should have accepted the vehicles. Speaking to reporters in Peshawar, Governor Kundi said that the KP government should make efforts to acquire “more things from the Centre”.
“I don’t know why KP CM returned those vehicles,” he had said.