Threats of terrorist attack in Skardu, Gilgit and Danyore: Home Secretary
Monitoring Desk
Gilgit, March 5: GB Home Secretary, Faisal Zahoor, has reportedly told a group of newsmen that terrorists might try to attack targets in Skardu, Gilgit city and Danyore, on the pattern of Quetta and Abbas Town-Karachi bomb blasts.
He has reportedly said that elaborate security measures have been taken to counter the threat of terrorism.
Giving details about the ‘security measures’, the home secretary has said that Afghan migrants living in Gilgit city and those without CNIC would be expelled from the region.
Expressing the fear that heavy vehicles might be used in a possible attack, the home secretary has said that a strict time schedule has been developed for trucks to enter and leave the cities in Gilgit and Skardu. This, he has told the media, would enable stricter monitoring of the vehicles.
The home secretary has, reportedly, also said that a number of counter-terrorism teams and units have been formed to respond to any eventuality. Choppers of the Pakistan Army have also been made available for security, he said.
These blood thirsty terrorist are still roaming around,oh God save us from any misshape.
When one person suffers from delusion it is called “Insanity”. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called “Religion”.
Law enforcement agency duty ends here after creating panic and fear among people of GB. People should take care them-self other wise terrorist easily approach to target because militant wings already functional with-in law enforcement departments.
Scouts vehicles being used to smuggle arms and explosives
FEBRUARY 7, 2013 LEAVE A COMMENT
By Asad Kharal / Creative: Muhammad Suhaib
The report revealed that in some cases women along with infants were also being used to facilitate smuggling. PHOTO: AFP/ FILE
LAHORE: Pakistan’s porous western borders, which continue to play host to militancy and terrorism, are now facing a new threat that has developed innovative ways to smuggle arms.
As the country struggles to eliminate terrorism, recent reports suggest that women and children and vehicles used by scouts are now being used to smuggle weapons and explosives in different parts of the country.
Intelligence and law enforcement agencies recently released a report identifying sources of this smuggling mafia. The report states that official scouts vehicles, used as protective cover against authorities, lead the way while a convoy transporting arms and explosives follow them in the northern areas of the country.
Extracts from the report, available with The Express Tribune, explain in detail how the smuggling mafia operates. Smugglers usually use their privately owned vehicles while transporting arms and explosives but a scouts car now leads the way to ensure clearance from the police force at different check posts.
The report revealed that in some cases women along with infants were also being used to facilitate smuggling. Women clad in the burqas usually accompany the smugglers while they are transporting their consignment from one place to the other.
The report states that various police and custom officers also facilitate these smugglers at different check posts.
Besides the porous western borders of the country, Darra Adamkhel, southern Peshawar and Sakhakot Market – situated in the northwestern region of Mardan – are considered to be places where the weapons and explosives are manufactured.
The smugglers follow five routes to smuggle weapons. The first route usually starts from Darra Adamkhel and ends at Rawalpindi. The smugglers travel from Darra Adamkhel to Peshawar from where they go towards Attock, Haripur and then through Wah to reach Rawalpindi.
The other route is from Darra Adamkhel to Peshawar and then moving towards Mansehra from where they go towards Kaghan, Chilas and then Gilgit.
Two other routes begin from the Sakhkot Market and then move towards Mardan from where one route leads to Rawalpindi while the other route ends in Gilgit.
A fifth route that is used by smugglers only during the summers originates through Chitral, passes Ghizer and ends in Gilgit.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 7th, 2013.
If a responsible official knows about the existence and movement of terrorists, then why are they waiting for? Do they wait for the blast and massive devastation and lost of lives.