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No security at bus stations

RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD: Following Marriott blast, the city administration has issued directives to ensure security at bus stops but it has been witnessed that this directive is being violated.

The directive was issued during a meeting of the administration of twin cities with transporters. Most of bus stands lie on IJ Principal Road while some are at Soan, Peshawar Road and Karachi Company. A visit to these stops revealed that order and discipline were the words alien to bus managers. The situation could be assessed by the fact that no one, neither bus managers nor the administration officials, knows how many buses enter and exit the city daily. ITP DSP Hassan Raza told Daily Times, “We don’t know but their number must be running in hundreds.”

Only one or two police officials were seen whiling away at a busy bus stop at Faizabad. Untrained and rude private security guards have taken up the task to make the stops secure. “Mostly, we identify a criminal by reading his face. Touching luggage with metal detectors is what we have been told to do. We have never been trained to use metal detectors by police or any other authority or bus stand owner,” said a security guard at a bus stop. atif khan

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