Lahore, November 08, 2022 (PPI-OT):A meeting was held under the chair of Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi at his office on Tuesday which was attended by Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Moonis Elahi, Umar Ayub and Hussain Elahi. It 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 CM 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.
The CM 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 emphasised 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. Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that he sees the sacrifices of the police with admiration and clarified that he did not criticize the police department but expressed concerns about an individual in his speech. Imran Khan thanked the police twice for the excellent security arrangements in Gujranwala, he added.
Like the police, there are talented officers in every department and average officers too. There was a murderous attack on Imran Khan, and the delay in the registration of FIR caused public concern and questions were raised, he maintained. My speech was misrepresented.
He said that the lodged FIR has been rejected by everyone. Some elements are afraid of our long march, they don’t want it to be a march, he added. Asad Umar said that the police provided the best security during the long march. We would proceed with the best coordination during the long march starting from Thursday, he added.
Mian Mehmood-ur-Rashid, Umar Sarfaraz Cheema, Chief Secretary Abdullah Sumbal, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Cap. (r) Asadullah Khan, Addl IG (SB), Addl IG (Operations) Punjab, CCPO Lahore, Addl IG CTD, DG rescue 1122, Commissioner Gujrat Division, DIG (Operations) Punjab, RPO Gujrat, DCs and DPOs of Gujrat, Sialkot, Wazirabad, Hafizabad attended the meeting while Commissioner Rawalpindi Division, RPO Rawalpindi, CPO, Rawalpindi and Jhelum’s DCs and DPOs participated through video link.
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