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Islamabad: Decision has been taken to declare Islamabad safe city in next month.

The Interior ministry has decided to install 1800 state of the art Close Circuit TV Cameras on the entry points of Islamabad, as part of this project for making federal capital safe city.

The sources said that interior ministry has issued directives in writing to Chinese company engaged in installing CCTV cameras to fulfill all the requirements of installation of these 1800 cameras, till November 30, 2015. The cameras are being installed with five years warranty.

Control room of these 1800 CCTV cameras will be set up in special cell of interior ministry. Automatic monitoring of these cameras will be carried out in Capital Police headquarters. This move will help rein in terror related incidents and other crimes in federal capital.

The Chinese company which has been assigned the work of installing these cameras has already done this job in other countries, major cities of China and Kuwait which are yielding requisite results.

This project is likely to be completed at the cost of 100 million dollars. Bank of China has provided this amount to Chinese company.

Pakistan will repay this amount in annual installments without paying any heavy interest.