PESHAWAR, Oct 28: The leaders of dif ferent religious organisations and representatives of traders have assured the administration of their support to ensure peace in the district during Muharram.

Deputy Commissioner Syed Zaheerul Islam and SSP Najeebur Rehman visited different imambargahs, bazaars and streets on Monday to finalise security plan for Muharram and ensure provision of all basic facilities to the mourners.

They directed the officials of Municipal Corporation Peshawar to ensure provision of water, installation of streetlights, cleanliness and removal of encroachments, particularly from the routes of processions.

The deputy commission also held separate meetings with leaders of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat and Idara Tableeghul Quran at his office and sought their opinion for observing peaceful Muharram in the district.

Maulana Ismail Darvesh of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat and Sardar Sajjad of Tanzeem-iNefazi Fiqa Jafria apprised the deputy commission of their reservations and put forward suggestions for peaceful processions during Muharram.

The SSP said that police were fully alert and all the areas would be properly covered to check movement of suspected pedestrians and vehicles. He said that the proposals of traders and religious organisations would be implemented to ensure safety and security to people and their properties.

`Police personnel will be deployed at all the entry and exit points to check movementof suspected people. Afghans would be restricted to their camps,` a police spokesman told this correspondent.

He said that police would also be backed by Frontier Constabulary and Frontier Corps. The traders had already assured police of their cooperation, he said, adding that police would take all possible steps for security of lives and properties of the people.

Meanwhile, in the ongoing campaign against corrupt police officers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 26 more officers of various ranks were suspended and inquiry was initiated against them.

According to a statement issued here on Monday, Inspect General of Police Nasir Khan Durrani directed the regional police officers and district police officers to take action against all the corrupt officers.

It said that following the directives of the IGP more alleged corrupt and unscrupulous elements were netted.

In Kohat, 11 police officers of different rank ware suspended. They included one inspector, four sub-inspectors, three assistant sub-inspectors and three other officials.

Similarly in Hazara, 15 officers of different rank ware suspended on the charges of corruption. The suspended officers included five inspectors, eight sub-inspectors and two assistant sub-inspectors.

It may be recalled that in the ongoing campaign against corrupt police officers so far 117 officials have been suspended in the province and inquiry has been initiated against them.