{"id":23119,"date":"2024-01-18T20:06:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T15:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=23119"},"modified":"2024-01-18T20:06:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T15:06:31","slug":"pm-kakar-establishes-high-level-committee-for-election-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-kakar-establishes-high-level-committee-for-election-security\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Kakar establishes high-level committee for election security"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The committee\u2019s formation comes just days ahead of the elections.<\/h3>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anwaar_kakar\">Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar<\/a> has formed a high-level committee to oversee security for the February 8 elections as political actors voice concerns about the law and order situation.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Minister for Communications, Railways, and Maritime Affairs Shahid Ashraf Tarar will head the seven-member committee, as per a notification from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The committee includes the Ministry of Interior\u2019s secretary and the chief secretaries of all four \u2014 Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Punjab \u2014 provinces, the notification mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>The committee\u2019s formation comes just days ahead of the elections as several politicos have either demanded their security be beefed up or a delay in elections due to the uncertain law and order situation.<\/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>Last week, an independent candidate running for the provincial assembly was killed alongside two aides when his car was hit by a spray of gunfire as he campaigned in the province, police said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/amid-growing-tensions-with-iran-prime-minister-kakar-will-shorten-his-visit-in-davos.html\">Amid growing tensions with Iran, Prime Minister Kakar will shorten his visit in Davos<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/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 casualties hit a six-year high 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><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ecp-bans-changing-of-election-symbols.html\">ECP bans changing of Election symbols<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Islamabad has accused 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>In a bid to ensure security, the government will saturate Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with thousands of security forces before the February 8 general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The committee\u2019s formation comes just days ahead of the elections. ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has formed a high-level committee to oversee security for the February 8 elections as political actors voice concerns about the law and order situation. Federal Minister for Communications, Railways, and Maritime Affairs Shahid Ashraf Tarar will head the seven-member committee, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[9981,10464,3629,148,138],"class_list":["post-23119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-anwaar-ul-haq-kakar","tag-pm-kakar","tag-ttp","tag-ecp","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}