Preventive measures: In AJK, security on high alert for Ashura
Plan for securing processions revised after terror incident in Bagh,
All vehicles entering Bagh, Muzaffarabad, Mirpur and Rawalakot will be checked at main entry points. PHOTO: APP/ FILE
MUZAFFARABAD:
Security has been put on high alert across Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) for Ashura after a hand grenade blast in Bagh in which a terrorist was killed and another injured during a police operation on Tuesday night.
The security plan for Muharram has been revised after the Bagh terrorist incident, said a senior police officer who is also a member of the investigation team tracking the terrorists’ links, requesting his name be withheld. Four districts, Muzaffarabad, Rawalakot, Bagh and Mirpur have been declared sensitive during Ashura. Additional policemen have been deployed in sensitive districts to avert any untoward incident during the Ashura processions.
Apart from the district administrations, commissioners and deputy inspectors general will monitor security in highly sensitive districts. All vehicles entering Bagh, Muzaffarabad, Mirpur and Rawalakot will be checked at main entry points.
“We are trying to find out a clue to who provided logistic support to these terrorists, which area and installations they wanted to target and which entry point they used to reach Bagh,” said the police official said, while talking to The Express Tribune.
Police sources said that a special team has been working day and night since the blast to trace out the links of the slain terrorist in Bagh and elsewhere in AJK.
Meanwhile, the Central Police Office (CPO) on Thursday issued a press release stating that cellular services will be suspended in Muzaffarabad from 6:am till 10:pm on 10th of Muharram. Cellular services will also remain suspended in Mirpur, Bagh, Kotli and Rawalakot districts. The district administration Kotli has imposed a ban on beggary to curb the movement of suspicious people during the Ashura processions. The biggest Ashura procession will be taken out from Imambargah Pir Alm Shah Bukhari at 10am on Friday (today).
Security has been put on high alert across Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) for Ashura after a hand grenade blast in Bagh in which a terrorist was killed and another injured during a police operation on Tuesday night.
The security plan for Muharram has been revised after the Bagh terrorist incident, said a senior police officer who is also a member of the investigation team tracking the terrorists’ links, requesting his name be withheld. Four districts, Muzaffarabad, Rawalakot, Bagh and Mirpur have been declared sensitive during Ashura. Additional policemen have been deployed in sensitive districts to avert any untoward incident during the Ashura processions.
Apart from the district administrations, commissioners and deputy inspectors general will monitor security in highly sensitive districts. All vehicles entering Bagh, Muzaffarabad, Mirpur and Rawalakot will be checked at main entry points.
“We are trying to find out a clue to who provided logistic support to these terrorists, which area and installations they wanted to target and which entry point they used to reach Bagh,” said the police official said, while talking to The Express Tribune.
Police sources said that a special team has been working day and night since the blast to trace out the links of the slain terrorist in Bagh and elsewhere in AJK.
Meanwhile, the Central Police Office (CPO) on Thursday issued a press release stating that cellular services will be suspended in Muzaffarabad from 6:am till 10:pm on 10th of Muharram. Cellular services will also remain suspended in Mirpur, Bagh, Kotli and Rawalakot districts. The district administration Kotli has imposed a ban on beggary to curb the movement of suspicious people during the Ashura processions. The biggest Ashura procession will be taken out from Imambargah Pir Alm Shah Bukhari at 10am on Friday (today).