Police review security arrangements for Pak Day parade.

ISLAMABAD -- Inspector General of Police Islamabad Aamir Zulfiqar Khan has directed all police officers to ensure foolproof security arrangements in their respective areas on the occasion of March 23 Pakistan Day Parade of the armed forces.

Presiding over a high-level meeting which was attended by DIG (Security) Waqar Ahmad Chohan, DIG (Headquarters) Sarfraz Ahmad Falki, DIG (Operations) Waqar Ud Din Syed, SSP (CTF) Syed Amin Bukhari, SSP (Security) Suleman, SSP (Headquarters) Irfan Tariq, SSP (ITP) Farrukh Rasheed, AIG (Operations) Sardar Ghias Gul and Additional SP Hasam Bin Iqbal, the IGP made clear instructions that no shortcoming in the security arrangements would be tolerated.

During the meeting, the IGP directed that intelligence-based operations should continue in the premises of Parade Avenue in particular, while the rest of outermost cordon areas in general.

Hotels, motels, rest houses and madaris must be checked out on daily basis. In this regard, DIG (Security) and DIG (Operations) have already been directed to review overall security plan for the upcoming event, according to the officials. As per directions of IGP Islamabad, security survey has been completed and further efforts are underway to plug any loopholes in order to make it foolproof.

The officials said that IGP Islamabad has given explicit directions to DIG...