Commandant Moazzam Jah Ansari says FC will also provide 40 platoons to Islamabad and 10 to Karachi
- 40 platoons to be provided to Islamabad, 10 to Karachi.
- KP to also arrange required 34,000 additional personnel.
- KP Police recently upgraded security for political leaders.
PESHAWAR: About 175 Frontier Constabulary (FC) platoons will be provided to assist the police in ensuring security for the upcoming general elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad and Karachi, The News reported Tuesday.
“We will provide 125 platoons to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 40 to Islamabad and 10 platoons to Karachi police for security during the general elections,” FC Commandant Moazzam Jah Ansari said.
Moreover, the police in KP will also arrange the required 34,000 additional personnel for security during the February 8 polls in the province — which has been severely marred by terror-related incidents.
“We need around 34,000 additional cops for adequate security arrangements during the general polls. Apart from seeking services of a good number of platoons from FC, the government and the force will engage manpower from many other departments to arrange for the additional security personnel,” a senior official of KP Police told The News.
The KP Police as of late redesigned security for the political pioneers who had gotten danger alarms in the previous days. Police authorities said they had gone to sufficient lengths for the security of the relative multitude of significant political pioneers and their social affairs.
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) a few days ago moved toward the Political race Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and other important discussions to guarantee overhauled security for the party initiative during the political race. The KP Police was coordinated to guarantee updated security for the political pioneers and their social occasions.
The advancement came after two affirmed aircraft were held by the Counter-Illegal intimidation Division (CTD) and were supposed to design assaults on JUI-F boss Maulana Fazlur Rehman and common leader of the Awami Public Party (ANP) Aimal Wali Khan.
For the most recent few years, the rule of peace and law circumstance has demolished in a few pieces of KP, particularly southern regions, with an expansion in assaults on police, security powers and regular citizens.
A few political figures and get-togethers were gone after too by the psychological oppressors in a couple of parts of the territory.
Senior police authorities said the circumstance had worked on in different pieces of the territory while endeavors were being made to further develop the rule of law in the southern locale.
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