{"id":48629,"date":"2024-01-16T15:33:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/govt-to-deploy-thousands-of-security-forces-for-general-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T15:33:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:33:05","slug":"govt-to-deploy-thousands-of-security-forces-for-general-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/govt-to-deploy-thousands-of-security-forces-for-general-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to deploy thousands of security forces for general elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The government will saturate Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with thousands of security forces before the February 8 general election, officials said on Tuesday, as Pakistan battles rising militancy ahead of polls.<\/p>\n<p>On February 8, the country will vote in delayed polls already marred by allegations of pre-poll rigging, with former prime minister Imran Khan jailed and barred from running.<\/p>\n<p>Previous election campaigns have witnessed spasms of violence, with scores of candidates and voters targeted by bombings and gun attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In the first week of February some 5,000 paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC) forces will deploy to the KP bordering Afghanistan, commander Moazzam Jah Ansari told <em>AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, an independent candidate running for the provincial assembly was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1804760\">killed<\/a> alongside two aides when his car was hit by a spray of gunfire as he campaigned in the province, police said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1804884\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A senior regional government official told <em>AFP<\/em> there was a \u201cdeteriorating security situation\u201d, and \u201cadditional police teams will be deployed at polling stations\u201d on voting day.<\/p>\n<p>A further 1,700 FC forces will be stationed in Islamabad and 400 in Karachi, tasked with backing up police who bear the brunt of militant attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile on Tuesday, in an order issued by his office, caretaker Sindh Chief Minister Maqbool Baqar warned \u201cthere have been multiple reports of attacks on candidates\u201d running for the election.<\/p>\n<p>Some have been \u201ckidnapped in broad daylight\u201d, he said, describing it as a \u201crising tide of crime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Last year saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1802262\">casualties hit a six-year high<\/a> with more than 1,500 civilians, security forces and militants killed, according to the Islamabad-based Center for Research and Security Studies.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest militant threat to the country is the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1787724\">accused<\/a> Kabul\u2019s Taliban government of harbouring TTP fighters, allowing them to strike on Pakistani soil with impunity. Kabul has consistently denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Last January, the TTP was linked to a mosque bombing which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1734573\">killed more than 80 police officers<\/a> inside a headquarters in Peshawar.<\/p>\n<p>In December, a TTP affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1797456\">killed 23 soldiers<\/a> by ramming an explosive-laden vehicle into a military base in the same province.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government will saturate Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with thousands of security forces before the February 8 general election, officials said on Tuesday, as Pakistan battles rising militancy ahead of polls. On February 8, the country will vote in delayed polls already marred by allegations of pre-poll rigging, with former prime minister Imran Khan jailed and barred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/01\/16191547498ba51.jpg?r=191646","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}