The deployment of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police commandos for the security of former premier Imran Khan in Lahore has been taken as “disgrace” by Punjab police high-ups who command a force that is considered as the “most professional and highly-trained” provincial police in the country.

The impression was re-enforced when some senior officers of Punjab police were reportedly disallowed to cross the inner security cordon at the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman’s Zaman Park residence by the KP commandos here the other day. The KP government had dispatched 50 well-equipped, highly-trained Elite Force commandos to take over the security of the injured head of the party ruling the province.

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