HYDERABAD, Jan 29: Provincial Police Officer Syed Kamal Shah visited the venues of the president's expected visit in Jamshoro and Dadu areas on Saturday to review security arrangements.

He went to Beto Jatoi, native village of Federal Minister for Water and Power Liaquat Jatoi, where President Gen Pervez Musharraf is likely to address a public gathering on Monday.

The PPO also visited the Sindh University and the Jamshoro Joint Venture Limited of Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Jamshoro, other venues of the president's expected visit.

Other officials related to the president's security also visited the venues.

Informed police sources told this correspondent that entire security cordon of the president would be put in place by army personnel and Rangers and police would be deployed at outer cordons of security and places like the Super Highway.

They said that entire hostels of the Sindh and Mehran universities had not been vacated but possession of their first and second floors had been obtained for security purposes.

Sindh Chief Secretary Aslam Sanjrani is due in Hyderabad on Sunday.

DENIAL: The PPO has denied that release of two kidnapped judges is the outcome of a deal with the kidnappers and said that at least he is not aware of any such deal.

He was talking to newsmen at the Circuit House here before leaving for Karachi,

About a custodial death in Mirpurkhas, he said that police had registered the case.

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