RAWALPINDI: A strict security cordon was placed during Imam Husain's Chehlum in the garrison city on Saturday. Policemen and personnel of other law enforcement agencies had secured the entire route of the procession on Friday night itself, by placing barricades on the slip streets and roads. Armoured vehicles, bomb disposal squad, fire brigade, Rescue 1122, ambulance squads and technical sweeping personnel remained on high alert throughout the day while anti-riot personnel, plainclothesmen and policewomen patrolled the city.

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