Pakistan Army deployed in Rawalpindi for 6 months for 'sensitive security duties'

The federal government has authorised the deployment of three companies of the Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi for six months for “sensitive security duties”, it emerged on Saturday. The interior ministry’s order, a copy of which is available with Dawn , is dated August 21. “Pursuant to the request made by the Punjab Home Department […] the federal government, in exercise of the powers conferred under…