With the February 8 elections only a few days away amid a recent surge in terror-related incidents, caretaker Minister for Information Murtaza Solangi Sunday assured of peaceful elections as the government will provide three-tier security for the upcoming elections.
“Police would be in the first tier, Rangers and Frontier Constabulary would perform duty in the second tier, while the third tier of security would be with the Pakistan Army as a quick response force,” Solangi said while briefing the foreign observers and media persons — who have arrived to monitor the elections — in Islamabad.
Addressing the recent surge in terror attacks, Solangi said that law and order and terrorism were not new issues in Pakistan, as it has been battling the scourge of terrorism for the past few decades.
“Since 2021, with the change of guard in Kabul, terrorist groups of various hues and colours having safe sanctuaries in a neighbouring country have become more active. [However] Pakistan was taking action against terrorists and that peaceful elections would be ensured at all costs,” he noted.
“Our battle-hardened security forces are fully prepared for the elections,” he noted. Recalling the 2008 and 2013 elections conducted, as per him, under the shadow of security threats, the minister acknowledged that some elements had been spreading rumours in the recent past about the elections, citing the severity of the weather, the law and order situation, or some other issues.
