Pakistan Rangers have been deployed in four Punjab districts to help the civil administration control law and order. A Home Department official told Daily Times on Tuesday that 11 Rangers companies had been deployed in Lahore, eight in Multan, seven in Faisalabad and four in Gujranwala district. He said that Rangers were called in on a request by the four city district governments, keeping in view violent protests in Lahore and Peshawar. The official said that heavy deployment of Rangers in Multan was because of a one-day match between the Pakistan and India cricket teams today amidst a call by local clerics to protest the cartoons.