Rawalpindi: About 81,000 security personnel are to be deployed across Pakistan by Friday to maintain law and order during the February 18 elections, a military official said on Thursday.
The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) director general Athar Abbas said that the Army would be deployed at all the sensitive areas and the deployment would be completed by Friday, Online news agency reported. He said the Army would be deployed only outside the polling stations. The troops would consist of about 34,000 Army personnel and 47,000 paramilitary forces personnel.
He said that 159 companies of the Army would be deployed in all the four provinces of the country to assist the civil administration during the elections. Abbas added that under Article 245 of the Constitution, troops have been deployed in 52 districts, which have been declared sensitive by the government and the step has been taken at the formal request of provincial governments.
