Police seek Rs 150m to meet expenditures during sit-in

Author: Hameed Langraw

According to sources, the high-ups of Islamabad police have asked for Rs 150 million from the government to meet the expenditures during the expected s-in of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazlur Rehman Group (JUI-F).

This amount is being used for the first three days of the expected dharna.

Sources in the Islamabad police said that initially Rs 250 million were demanded by the Islamabad police however the ministry of interior rejected the said demand and asked to revise the expenditure plan.

The demanded amount is only for the first three days and it will be used in term of food, residence, petrol, containers and other expenses. This amount will be increased with the duration of dharna.

Earlier in first summery, six hundred containers were demanded to block and creation of hurdles on different road of twin cities but ministry of interior asked police high ups to reduce the containers up to four hundreds. Moreover, deployment of twenty thousand police personnel’s from two provinces is also demanded by the Islamabad administration

A famous 126 day dharna of PTI and PAT casts almost 400 million rupees on security, food and other facilitation expenditures, than PML-N government claimed that dharna causes damage of 800 billion rupees to the economy.