ISLAMABAD: Pakistani intelligence agencies, following a tip-off, fear that a joint group of terrorist outfits can kidnap former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf during his journey to courts or back to the sub-jail, sources from the Ministry of Interior revealed yesterday.
“The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in collaboration with other local jihadi elements, has made a comprehensive plan to abduct Musharraf while on move from courts in Rawalpindi, Islamabad.”
To execute their plan, they have detailed various teams to ensure success at all costs. The exact time and place of the operation is not known, the sources, quoting the threat alert, said. The intelligence agencies suggested extreme vigilance and heightened security to counter the attempt to abduct the former president.
“The TTP, with the collaboration of at least eight terrorist organisations based in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, including the Northern Areas, has finalised their plan to abduct Musharraf in a kind of Kohat jailbreaking operation,” the source, mentioning the threat-alert, disclosed.
A joint squad of various terrorist groups has detailed duties to keep an eye on the movements of the former president and to execute the plan, the sources said.
Inspector General of Police (IGP), Islamabad, Bani Ameen Khan, confirmed the report saying that the law enforcement agencies, other than the protection of former president, had taken strict measures to counter such terrorist attacks.
On Tuesday, an explosive-laden vehicle was found parked on Park Road, a few hundred metres from the farmhouse of Musharraf, where he is under detention, which could have been a part of the plan, the sources
maintained.
The sources said the terrorist groups could hit the ‘Tableeghi Ajtima’ (religious congregation) being held in Islamabad from April 27 to 29.
Quoting threat alerts, the sources also said that the terrorist outfits had a plan to target and kidnap Europeans and Chinese working in Pakistan.
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