*ISLAMABAD: In a crucial meeting called to devise a security plan for theelection day, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursdayfinalized foolproof security arrangements and decided to conduct July 25elections in the supervision of army.*

ECP officials announced that along with army, the assistance of rangerswill also be sought during the polls.

Chief Election Commissioner Sardar Muhammad Raza was chairing the meeting.The director general military operations, the defence secretary and thenewly appointed chief secretaries and inspectors general of police of allfour provinces were also present.

The security of printing press, printing of ballot papers and theirdelivery to respective polling stations will be carried out under army’ssupervision, ECP officials told.

ECP asked chief secretaries of all provinces to submit a final list of allsensitive polling booths and ordered the installation of CCTV cameras atall sensitive stations, in addition to other special security measures.

During the meeting, the proposal of having Quick Response Force came underconsideration for which ECP may contact military, according to details.

Deployment of rangers and army personnel inside and outside the pollingstations was also discussed.

The complete security arrangements for polling stations, polling staff,monitoring teams, politicians, political rallies and sensitive pollingstations have been finalized.