ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Punjab province has launched the country’s “first mobile Counterterrorism Department” to monitor complex security operation in real time, the provincial chief minister said on Wednesday, amid a surge in militancy in the country.
Pakistan is currently facing an uptick in militant attacks, mainly by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in its northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, which borders Punjab.
The attacks in KP have forced authorities in Punjab to heighten security and take pre-emptive measures in view of potential spillover of militants into the country’s most populous province.
In a post on X, Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz Sharif shared visuals of the mobile counterterrorism unit that can accommodate over half a dozen officials and is equipped with state-of-the-art technology.
“This van will function as a fully equipped counterterrorism office on the go, enabling real-time monitoring of security operations in challenging and unusual situations,” Sharif said.
