Security on high alert in Peshawar, adjoining areas

Updated at: 1711 PST, Thursday, October 23, 2008
PESHAWAR: Security has been beefed up in Peshawar and its adjoining areas in view of any potential threat.

Police spokesman said that security has been put on high alert in the wake of worsening law and order situation in the provincial capital.

According to sources, police have stepped up the surveillance system and extra security personnel have been deployed at entrance and exit points. The movement of suspected people is being monitored.

Sources told that special contingents of police have been deployed outside mosques, other worship places and important governments’ buildings