Source: Nation(Pak)
LAHORE
– The intelligence agencies have raised fears of terrorism across the
country as a CIA-backed squad has been tasked to carry out terrorists
activities to stoke sectarian strife during Muharram
The
agencies have urged all the provincial and AJK authorities to ensure
foolproof security as a CIA-sponsored squad, ‘Black Night’, has been
assigned the task of carrying out targeted killings, and suicide
bombings to instigate sectarian violence during the holy month.
According to sources, the hostile spy agencies had recruited militants
to disrupt peace in the country as the rift between Washington and
Islamabad is widening since the Raymond Davis episode.
It has
been learnt reliably that the undercover CIA-agents, disguised as
‘diplomats’ and operating in different parts of the country, are funding
militant groups having anti-Pakistan agenda. The sources went on:
“Terrorists have raised a special group, ‘Black Night’, in Pakistan to
carry out attacks as per the desire of their foreign masters.”
“We have received such information and we are effectively working to
thwart their designs,” a senior official of the Intelligence Bureau said
on Monday.
A senior official in the Interior Ministry said
the provincial governments and the authorities in Gilgit-Baltistan and
AJK have been asked to ensure foolproof security during the holy month.
He went on: “All the security agencies have been put on high alert to
avert possible terror attacks in Lahore, Karachi, Quetta, and Peshawar.”
Another source in the Intelligence Bureau said the ‘Black Night’ squad
may carry out gun and bomb attacks to assassinate leading religious
scholars.
According to a report sent to the provincial
authorities, the hostile intelligence had planned terror strikes on
religious gatherings to stoke sectarian violence.
The report,
compiled by the Interior Ministry, was forwarded days after the Nato
raid killed 24 Pakistan Army troops in sheer violation of the
international laws.
According to security experts, terrorism
and its shadowy activities require huge amounts of cash and massive
financial resources to meet the costly expenses of recruitment,
acquiring lethal weapons, equipment for communication, training,
logistic support, and cumulative funds to pay to the families of
‘jehadis’ as compensation, payments made to agents and confederates,
sympathisers and other mundane expenditures.
It is learnt
that American and Indian intelligence agencies are funding various
terror groups to inflame unrest in the big cities of the country.
Blocking
terrorists finance is essential and a pre-requisite to defeat them.
Without effective check on funds, the fight against terror may not
produce desired results.
Though the government and security
forces have taken a number of steps to curb flow of funds to terrorists,
the authorities must take up the issue at an appropriate level.
“The US is playing a double game in Afghanistan – blaming Pakistan for
providing sanctuaries to Taliban and supporting the anti-Pakistan
Taliban to carry out terror hits inside Pakistan,” another security
expert said.
The Pak Army has repeatedly asked the Isaf to act
against the militants disrupting peace in Pakistan from Afghanistan but
the US has failed to respond positively, he added.
“When the US has certain expectations form Pakistan, it must also reciprocate in the same spirit,” he added.
The US troops’ concentration along Pak-Afghan borders caused tension and anxiety in North Waziristan tribal region.
Pakistani security forces have successfully averted many plots of
terrorism in the recent past and arrested many militants along with huge
cache of arms and ammunition from Chitta Bakhtawar, Quetta, Peshawar
and Islamabad.
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