PESHAWAR: As residents of the newly-merged tribal districts go to polls for the provincial assembly for the very first time in their history, the government has made stringent security arrangements, including the deployment of a whopping 34,497 security personnel in these areas.
This was disclosed during a meeting of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Apex security committee. The committee met with K-P Governor Shah Farman in the chair at the Governor House in Peshawar on Friday. It was also attended by the K-P Chief Minister Mahmood Khan and other civil and military security officials such as Peshawar Corps Commander Lieutenant General Shaheen Mazhar Mehmood, K-P Chief Secretary Saleem Khan, Inspector General Police Muhammad Naeem, Home and Tribal Affairs secretary and the heads of other law enforcing agencies.
Global News 
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