{"id":23508,"date":"2024-01-24T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T05:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=23508"},"modified":"2024-02-06T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T09:03:49","slug":"election-2024-army-deployment-during-elections-approved-by-the-federal-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/election-2024-army-deployment-during-elections-approved-by-the-federal-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2024: Army deployment during elections approved by the Federal cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Tuesday saw the approval of a report by the acting federal cabinet that called for the use of force during the elections on February 8.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the general elections, the federal cabinet received a summary of the army&#8217;s deployment and was asked to approve it.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/interior-ministry-establishes-control-room-for-general-elections.html\">Interior Ministry establishes control room for general elections<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The army should be sent in as a quick response force for the general elections that are set for February 8th, according to the Interior Ministry&#8217;s recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>The summary was accepted by the acting federal cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>After the caretaker federal cabinet approves the Interior Ministry&#8217;s report, Pakistan Army soldiers, Rangers, and FC members will carry out election-related tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/federal-cabinet-approves-military-and-security-forces-deployment-for-elections.html\">Federal Cabinet Approves Military and Security Forces Deployment for Elections<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The severe lack of security personnel forced authorities to make this decision, enlisting the army&#8217;s support for the approaching elections.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab, acknowledged as the nation&#8217;s election battleground, struggles with a 92,000 manpower shortfall at polling places.<\/p>\n<p>Concurrently, there is a 14,300 security staff shortage in the Karachi Police, including female officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Tuesday saw the approval of a report by the acting federal cabinet that called for the use of force during the elections on February 8. Prior to the general elections, the federal cabinet received a summary of the army&#8217;s deployment and was asked to approve it. Read More:\u00a0Interior Ministry establishes control room for general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11511,9,21,2,147],"tags":[10904,10297,10362,8529,10707],"class_list":["post-23508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2024","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-army-deployment","tag-election","tag-election-2024","tag-election-campaign","tag-election-candidates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23508","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}