High alert: Security intensified in AJK

MIRPUR: Security has been intensified across Azad Jammu and Kashmir to maintain complete peace and order on the sacred day of Ashura, the 10th of Muharaamul Haraam, falling on Wednesday. The AJK government has ordered adequate arrangements through deputation of additional security staff including police force headed by magistrates at all the places of worship particularly, Imambargahs and traditional routes leading to such worship places. The security alert is meant to avert any threat of terror attack on the religious gatherings. Official sources told APP on Monday that district magistrates and the district police chiefs, as well as heads of all the police stations in AJK have been directed by the state government to patrol in their respective jurisdictions to ensure peace and order in the area before and after all scheduled events during Muharramul Haraam.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 11^th, 2016.