PESHAWAR, June 11: Extraordinary security arrangements have been made for the scheduled visit of President General Pervez Musharraf in the provincial metropolis on Saturday.

President Pervez Musharraf was due in the city to attend the marriage ceremony of the daughter of NWFP Governor Iftikhar Hussain Shah on Saturday, official sources told Dawn here on Friday.

Paramilitary troops had been deployed in the city aside from the police to provide protection to the president and other important personalities visiting the city from Friday to Sunday to attend the marriage ceremony, they added.

The president would remain in the city for a few hours and go be back to Islamabad on the same day, the sources added. However, other important personalities and their families have been invited for different functions related to the marriage on Friday night.

On Friday 18 platoons of the police and Frontier Reserve Police were deployed along with the 10 platoons of the Frontier Constabulary on all important roads in the city, the sources said. The extra-ordinary security arrangements would remain in force in the city until three days' marriage ceremonies were over, the sources said.