OKARA, Jan 28: Around 2,000 policemen from 13 districts of the Punjab will perform the security duty during the visit of President Pervez Musharraf here on Saturday (today).

The president will address a big public gathering in Sports Stadium at the District Courts Complex. Defence Minister Rao Sikander Iqbal and Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi will also speak.

Later, the minister will also host a dinner in the president's honour at the district council. Earlier, Governor Khalid Maqbool and Pervaiz Elahi will receive the president in Okara.

It is learnt that about one kilometre area around the stadium will be sealed for every kind of traffic while the people wishing to participate in the public gathering will have to come on foot.

The traffic police are strictly checking the documents of every vehicle round the clock. Besides five SSPs, 16 DSPs, 80 inspectors, 150 SIs, 300 ASIs and 1600 constables, the lady police, Motorway police and 11 platoons of the Punjab Constabulary will also provide the security duty.

CAMPAIGN: DPO Syed Zafar Abbas Bokhari and District Naib Nazim Syed Abbas Raza Rizvi said special campaign will be launched against drug pushers. They said this while speaking to a public gathering arranged by an NGO 'Movement Against Drug Abuse' (MADA) here on Friday.