LAHORE: Rangers Punjab has been deployed at 10 different places of the provincial metropolis to maintain law and order situation.
One each platoon of Rangers has been deployed at Governor’s House, both sides of GOR I and II, Punjab Assembly, GPO Chowk, The Mall, Punjab Civil Secretariat, Aiwan-e-Adal, Supreme Court Lahore Registry, Lahore High Court, office of IG Punjab, and Punjab Institute of Cardiology. Two companies have been reserved for emergency back-up.
The deployment was made on the request of Punjab home department after the legal fraternity added another ‘feather in its cap’ by attacking an institution catering for patients with heart-related complications. The inhuman treatment meted out to the people by lawyers and doctors in courts and hospitals respectively besides strikes and sudden protests with roadblocks has become a common practice in the city.
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