CHITRAL: Army has been deployed for the first time in district
Chitral, a hilly district of Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa and security forces
are also being deployed in Pak-Afghan border areas in districts upper
Dir and Lower Dir to halt militants attacks.
Talking to BBC,
ISPR Director General Maj Gen Athar Abbas has also confirmed deployment
of army. He told that some military contingents had been deployed in
some areas of Pak-Afghan borders. However he did not provide further
details on this count.
A senior government functionary told BBC
that army personnel were coming to Chitral in the form of caravans and
security forces in large number have arrived there.
He told
these military contingents were being deployed in Pak-Afghan border
area of Arondo to stop attacks of terrorists from inside Afghan soil. Online
