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Ministers deputed to monitor Muharram security arrangements

Lahore, September 18, 2018 (PPI-OT): Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has deputed provincial ministers, advisors and special assistants to monitor the security arrangements during the holy month of Muharram ul Haram. They will inspect the arrangements made for maintenance of law and order in their respective districts on 8th to 10th Muharram and implementation on the security plan will be ensured in collaboration with concerned administration and the police. While issuing directions to cabinet subcommittee on law and order, the chief minister said that provincial ministers should ensure strict monitoring of security plan in their given districts and any leniency or negligence in security duties will be strictly unbearable.

Maintenance of religious harmony among all the schools of thought will be ensured in collaboration with the ulema and administration should proactively ensure implementation on the code of conduct. The citizens should also remain fully vigilant to fail the nefarious designs of the enemy, he added. Meanwhile, a notification has been issued with regard to deputing of ministers, advisors and special assistants in different districts to monitor security arrangements during Moharram. According to notification, senior minister Abdul Aleem Khan, Dr. Yasmin Rashid and Mian Muhammad Aslam Iqbal will monitor security in Lahore.

Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed is given Sheikhupura, Chaudhry Zaheerud Din is given Faisalabad and Malik Muhammad Anwar is deputed in Attock. Similarly, Muhammad Sibtain Khan will monitor the security in Mianwali, Sardar Hussnain Bahadur Drashak is given Rajanpur District and Murad Raas is assigned Okara. Muhammad Hashim Dogar is given Kasur, Sardar Asif Nakai is given Nankana Sahib and Mumtaz Ahmed is given Chiniot. Muhammad Taimur Khan is assigned Jhang, Raja Rashid Hafeez is given Rawalpindi and Hafiz Ammar Yasir is given Chakwal District. Yasir Humayun is given Jhelum, Ansar Majeed Khan Niazi is given Sargodha and Khushab and Malik Nauman Ahmed Khan Langrial is given Sahiwal District.

Samiullah Chaudhary is given Bahawalpur, Makhdoom Hashim Jawanbakht is deputed in Rahimyar Khan and Muhammad Mohsin Leghari is given Dera Ghazi Khan. Pir Syed Saeedul Hassan Shah is given Narowal, Mehr Muhammad Aslam is given Layyah, Khanewal is given to Syed Husain Jehanian Gardezi and Multan is given to Muhammad Akhtar. Hafizabad is given to Muhammad Ajmal, Sialkot is given to Muhammad Akhlaq and Toba Tek Singh is deputed to Aashfa Riaz. Similarly, Bahawalnagar is given to Shoukat Ali Lalika, Lodhran is given to Zawar Hussain Warraich, Gujranwala and Gujrat are given to Mian Khalid Mehmood and Vehari is assigned to Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan Khichi. Pakpattan is assigned to Ejaz Masih, Muzafargarh is given to Abdul Hayee Dasti, Mandi Bahauddin is given to Faisal Hayat and Amir Muhammad Khan will perform monitoring duty in Bhakkar District.

For more information, contact:
Directorate General Public Relations, Punjab (DGPR)
Government of the Punjab
21-Mahmood Gaznavi Road (Abbot Road), Lahore, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42-99201390-1-2
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