Overview
- At a ceremony in Police Lines Peshawar, the government handed over bulletproof vehicles, modern sub‑machine guns, bulletproof jackets, helmets, sniper rifles and heavy motorcycles to police units.
- The province has allocated Rs7.7 billion for the Counter‑Terrorism Department, Rs7.2 billion for the Special Branch and Rs6.5 billion to enhance security infrastructure and policing in the merged districts.
- An additional Rs3.8 billion has been sanctioned to expand the Safe City surveillance project from Peshawar to all divisional headquarters and the merged tribal areas, with Peshawar’s system described as nearing full operation.
- Chief Minister Sohail Afridi said police face pressure over the 9 May events but have remained impartial, and he urged that law enforcement not be pulled into political disputes.
- Afridi announced fresh recruitments and infrastructure upgrades for CTD and Special Branch, praised two decades of police sacrifices and voiced intent to work with the federal government to defeat terrorism.