Punjab CM Ch Parvez Elahi orders foolproof security arrangements for long march

LAHORE (92 News) - A meeting was held under the chair of Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi at his office on Tuesday.

The meeting took a detailed review of the security arrangements for the long march that would start on Thursday. The police officials presented the proposed plan regarding the security of the long march.

The chief minister instructed to ensure fool-proof security arrangements and said that the participants should be provided with full security in every city from Wazirabad to Rawalpindi. "Snipers should be deputed on the rooftops of buildings along the route," he said.

A strong force of 15 thousand police personnel will be deployed on the long march route from Wazirabad to Rawalpindi; he noted and ordered that the police control room should actively perform its duties 24 hours. "The long march should be monitored with drone cameras and a two-tier security fence should be arranged around the long march," he instructed.

He asserted that there will be no compromise on the foolproof security of the PTI leadership and the participants, and the use of bulletproof rostrum and bulletproof glass should be ensured on the container, and a new bulletproof container should be prepared.

"In this regard, the Punjab government will provide all possible support," he said. He emphasized that foolproof security arrangements should be made in every aspect and police and administrative officers should be deputed for coordination in each district and additional police force should be called from other districts in Rawalpindi.

The CM ordered that other accomplices of the accused, who threatened to kill Imran Khan in Hafizabad, should also be brought to justice. "The police force is my team and I value their sacrifices," he concluded.