The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have finalised foolproof security arrangements for peaceful observance of Muharram processions and Majalis started across the province on Monday. Five districts including Peshawar and Kohat, Hangu, D I Khan and Manshera have been declared "highly sensitive" districts, Haripur, Bannu and Tank as "sensitive" while Nowshera, Mardan, Lakki Marwat, Abbottabad were declared "normal" during the Muharram.
25,000 police personnel have been deployed to perform duty to avert any untoward incident or nefarious design elements of anti-state elements. Along heavy police contingents, the security personnel of Pakistan Army would also be deployed on routes of the 9th and 10th Muharram's mourning processions and the Frontier Constabulary and administration of each district would jointly perform the security duty while co-operation of all sectarian groups had also been sought by police and administration at district level in order to ensure sectarian harmony and avoid any provocative act by any quarters.
The police commandos will also provide security to 193 Imambargahs across the province while the armed forces could be called in case of emergency. Besides Army deployment, 63 additional platoons of the Frontier Constabulary had also been made available to contribute for the protection of Muharram activities. It was informed by the sources that a total of 429 mourning processions to be brought out across KP while over 2,500 congregations (Majlis) will be held at 245 Imambargahs throughout the province during the Muharram.
As per security plan, more than 10,000 personnel of district police, Frontier Reserve Police, Elite Force, Frontier Constabulary, Special police force and ex-servicemen would be deployed in Peshawar, while around 2,000 personnel in Hangu, over 4,000 in Dera Ismail Khan, about 3,789 in Bannu and 2,165 in Kohat.
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