LAHORE, Jan 28: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Saturday made it clear that the participants in Marathon would be given full protection and nobody could dare disrupt it. He was talking to reporters after performing the ground breaking ceremony of the multi-million IMAX Theatre and Shopping Mall project in Gulberg.

He said the government would not allow anyone to disrupt the marathon which would be held on Sunday (today) separately for disabled people, women and children, and men according to his earlier announcement and agreement with the MMA.

He wondered as to why the MMA was protesting against the event when its leadership had agreed with him on its procedure.

When his attention was drawn towards a statement by the governor that the race would be a mixed event, he said it would be held according to the announced schedule.

The chief minister said everybody had the right to oppose in democracy but it should be done in a decent and civilized manner. This was not wrong to lodge ones protest in newspapers but not in the streets.