IGP hints at disciplinary action against protesting police personnel

PESHAWAR: The Inspector General of Police Khyber Pakthunkhwa has hinted at initiating disciplinary action against police personnel who have been protesting in Lakki Marwat district for the last about five days.

Speaking to a TV channel correspondent in Peshawar, Akhtar Hayat Gandapur said that some elements in the southern districts of the province were trying to create schism in the police force. He said these elements behind the protest by the police because in the recent military operations, some commanders of terrorists and their relatives and accomplices had been eliminated.

At the same time however they provincial police chief acknowledged that their has been rice incident in this southern districts of Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, and Lakki Marwat.

He said that some elements were trying to sabotage the successful operation in which a number of commanders of terrorists had recently been killed. 

A large number of officials from the police have been protesting on a major highway in Lakki Marwat city of Khyber Pakthunkhwa for the last five days.

The protesters are demanding that interference in their daily official work should by stopped by other law enforcement agencies. They have said that they should be given a free hand to deal with terrorists in order to maintain peace in the area.

Initially, the protest was launched by officials of the Lakki Marwat district police, but later officials and employees of police from the nearby districts of Dera Ismail Khan, Tank and Karak also joined them.