Capital police to beef up security on August 14

ISLAMABAD: The capital police have chalked out a comprehensive plan on the occasion of Independence Day and have decided to deploy security personnel at important installations as well as public places too. According to a police official the Police with the help of sniffer dogs and security equipment, will comb the green areas of Daman-e-Koh, Pir Sohawa and Margalla hills. The police and intelligence personnel will search Islamabad’s foliage areas in plainclothes. It has been also planned to set up police pickets on almost all the city’s major roads. The city will be divided into various security zones for Independence Day and extra contingents of Rangers, Frontier Constabulary and police will be deployed at the 55 entry and exit points of the city. “We’re fully geared up and exercising extra vigilance. There are over dozen points from Faizabad to Pirwadhi Square at GT Road for entering Islamabad and we’ve covered all these points by deploying extra police force there, a police source said.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 8^th, 2017.