Islamabad security situation to be reviewed today.

ISLAMABAD -- Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed will review security situation of the federal capital on Sunday (today).

Sources told Dawn that the minister was expected to review security of the entry points of the federal capital and he would decide a strategy to boost security of the Red Zone.

The sources said security of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would also be discussed during a meeting presided over by the interior minister.

The inspector general of Islamabad Police, Chief Commissioner and representatives of law enforcement agencies will attend the meeting. Police chiefs of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will also join them via video link.

Head of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Maulana Fazlur Rehman had on Jan 6 announced that they would stage a protest outside the ECP on Jan 19.

He had claimed during a public meeting in Bannu that a...

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