security alert for friday prayers in peshawar.
Security has been stepped up outside mosques and Imambargahs in the city of Peshawar during the holy month of Ramadan.
Police is carrying out snap-checking on worshipers.
Security officials say they make special security arrangements on Friday and they deploy additional security to meet any untoward incident.
They say police personnel are carrying out their duties despite hot weather and fasting.
The residents say they need more security so that they could fearlessly perform their prayers.
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