Sialkot sees stringent security steps

Published September 29, 2010

SIALKOT The police and other law-enforcing agencies made stringent security arrangements during PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif's stay in the district headquarters city on Tuesday.

The security agencies jammed cellular phones for almost three hours before and during his stay at the SCCI.

Security was also beefed up at the residence of MNA Khwaja Asif in Cantonment where Sharif had stayed for a short while.

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