According to our correspondent, high security alert has been declared and snap checking were begun at all entrance and exits of the provincial capital.

Government has formed a special security plan as the Difa-e-Pakistan’s long march against resumption of Nato supply routes underway towards Islamabad.

Rehman Malik, adviser to prime minister on interior affairs, said that government has finalised special security plan for the long march.

“Long march route will be monitored through helicopter and CCTV cameras,” he said and added that the shopkeepers in the capital have ensured him to close their shops by 4pm on Monday.

Thousands of political workers and leaders from different political parties gathered at Nasir Bagh in morning and begun the march toward Islamabad.

The leaders said that thousands of workers would link up with the march from different cities.

Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, the chairman of the DPC, while addressing the march demanded the people to join the march to block American intervention in the country.

Hafiz Saeed said that the long march would bring the nation back to the ideology on which Pakistan was made.

Leader of Jamaat-e-Islami party, Munawar Hasan, criticized the government's decision to allow its routes for NATO trucks, saying that it will involve the country in Afghan war.
He said the government violated the parliamentary recommendations which had called for imposition of tax on NATO trucks but the government opened the line without levying any transit fee on NATO containers.

Another leader of the alliance, Hafiz Saeed, regretted that the parliament in new guidelines for relationship with the United States in April had demanded the latter to halt drone strikes but the American attacks are still continuing.

He recalled that the U.S. spy aircraft again rained missiles into North Waziristan tribal region on Friday and killed 21 people.

Ameer Jamaat-i-Islami Munawar Hasan said that they come out from their houses to bring Islamic revolution.

Sheikh Rasheed requested the nation to participate in the long march above than their political affiliations.

The two-day long march will reach Gujrat tonight after passing through Shahdrah, Muridky, Kamonki, Gujranwala and Wazirabad. The long march will resume from Gujrat and will enter Islamabad through Murree Road Rawalpindi.

As several leader of the DPC are banned to enter the capital, Rehman Malik said that leader of the banned organizations would not be allowed to enter Islamabad with the march.

Earlier, former prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani while commenting on the march said that most of them were chronic ‘jihadis.’

Weather is pleasant today and we will provide water and other facilities to the marchers, he added. (agencies)