HYDERABAD: Security beefed up in wake of blasts
HYDERABAD, Jan 28: Personnel of police and Rangers organised ‘flag marches’ and set up pickets on roads and streets as part of measures district administrations across the province have taken to beef up security in the wake of two bomb blasts in the country.
In Hyderabad personnel of rangers patrolled roads and streets and searches vehicles on the Super Highway after a tip-off that a explosives-laden vehicle had left Dera Ismail Khan for Karachi.
JAMSHORO: Officials of district government, police and rangers organised a ‘flag march’ led by Jamshoro DCO Dr. Mohammad Khawar Jamil, DPO Arab Mahr, Major Abdullah and senior district officers.
The officials urged people to help them maintain peace in the district during the sacred month and warned that the violators of law would be dealt with strictly.
MIRPURKHAS: Police have set up a control room at the office of taluka municipal administration and joint patrolling by police and rangers have been intensified around imambargahs and mosques.
Police have installed close circuit TV (CCTV) cameras at different points to monitor the processions and started frisking people with metal detectors at the entry points to mosques and imambargahs.
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Indus Rangers have set up pickets at different points on the National Highway after the Sindh government announced tightening of security measures.
Personnel of rangers are busy conducting snap checking at entry and exit points along the highway.
Colonel Maqsood Amir of Indus Rangers confirmed that temporary pickets had been established the highway as a part of security measures to maintain law and order during Muharram.