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The intelligence agencies, following information, fear that a joint group of terrorist outfits can kidnap former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf during his journey to courts or back to sub-jail, sources from the Ministry of Interior revealed yesterday.
“The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in collaboration with other local Jehadi elements, has made a comprehensive plan to abduct Musharraf while on move to/from courts in Rawalpindi/Islamabad. To execute their plan, they have organised/detailed various teams to ensure success at all costs. Exact time and place for the activity is not known,” the sources, quoting the threat alert, maintained.
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 the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KP) including the Northern Areas, has finalised their plan to abduct
Musharraf in a kind of Kohat jail-breaking operation,” the source, mentioning the threat-alert, disclosed.
A joint squad of different terrorist groups has detailed duties to keep an eye on the activities of the former president and to execute the target plan, the sources said. Inspector General of Police (IGP), Islamabad, Bani Ameen Khan confirmed the report saying that the law enforcing 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 at the Park Road a few hundred metres from the farmhouse of Musharraf where he is under detention, which could be part of the plan, the sources maintained.
The sources said that the terrorist group could hit the “Tableeghi Ajtima” (religious congregation) being held in Islamabad on April 27 to 29.
Quoting threat alerts, the sources said that the terrorist outfits had a plan to target and kidnap the European and Chinese people working in Pakistan.