15,000: strong police force to guard PTI's long march.

LAHORE -- Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Tuesday chaired a high: level meeting in which it was decided to deploy 15,000: strong police force to provide security to the PTI's long march protest starting from Thursday (tomorrow). The meeting took a detailed review of the security arrangements for the long march as the police officials presented a security plan. Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Moonis Elahi and Hussain Elahi also attended the meeting besides senior police and civil officers. The chief minister instructed that long march should be monitored with drone cameras and a two: tier security fence should be arranged around the marchers. He also directed that 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 added. Provincial Minister Mian Mehmoodur Rashid, Umar Sarfaraz Cheema, Chief Secretary Abdullah Sumbal, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Captain (retd) Asadullah Khan, Additional IG (SB), Additional IG (Operations) Punjab, suspended CCPO Lahore, Additional IG CTD, DG Rescue 1122, Commissioner Gujrat Division, DIG (Operations) Punjab, RPO Gujrat, DCs and DPOs of Gujrat, Sialkot, Wazirabad and Hafizabad attended the meeting while the commissioner Rawalpindi Division, RPO Rawalpindi, CPO, Rawalpindi and Jhelum's DCs and DPOs participated through video link. Punjab IGP Faisal Shahkar was not invited to attend the meeting. The CM also asked the police officers that the march participants should be provided with full security in every city from Wazirabad to Rawalpindi. 'Snipers should also be deputed on the rooftops of buildings along the route besides a strong force of 15,000 police personnel...