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| Govt. orders intelligence machinery upgradation | | Centre cautions J&K CM against terrorist attack | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, May 17
The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, is said to have become an "irritant" for a section of anti-India terrorists. Azad's apparent fault: He is a nationalist and keen to see his home State, J&K, free from terrorists and militants. And his continuing efforts to make the ongoing peace process in the State purposeful and fruitful seem to have antagonized jihadis.
According to intelligence inputs available with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Azad is among several VIPs already on the terrorists' hit-list. If these inputs were any guide, terrorist outfits, particularly the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen, intend to carry out disruptive and subversive activities not only in Jammu and Kashmir but also in several other places across the country. Ghulam Nabi Azad has been advised by the Centre to be "highly careful" in his movement and interaction with the public.
The terrorist outfits, Home Ministry specialists have felt, can target sensitive and vital installations, VIPs, religious places, places of national importyance and vital economic infrastructure. As a set of intelligence reports talk of the "growing posibility" of terrorist attacks on places of worship to communalise the situation, the Ministry of Home Affairs has called for further tightening of security arrangements in and around important places of worship in Jammu and Kashmir, including Khir Bhawani temple and Amarnath shrine in Kashmir Valley and Vaishnodevi shrine in Jammu region.
Fresh instructions have also been issued, calling for tightening of security not only in and around the Ayodhya complex but also at Krishna Janambhoomi-Shahi Idgah at Mathura, Gyanvapi Mosque-Kashi Vishwanath temple at Varanasi and Taj Mahal at Agra.
EARLY TIMES was offically informed that the Union Home Ministry has, through separate mesages, advised other States and Union Territories to review the security arrangements at important religious shrine, buildings of national importance, vital civil and defence installations and historical monuments located within their jurisdiction and which may be culnerable to terrorist attacks.
Even as the major concern of the current internal security scenario in India, according to Sriprakash Jaiswal, Minister of State for Home, centred around terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, subversive activities of militant groups in the northeast region and violence perpetrated by the naxalite groups in some States, the government of India has this time alerted the police and intelligence agencies elsewhere as well in the wake of the 'sinister' plan of some groups to target places of worship.
It is official: Ministry of Home Affairs has, once again, laid emphasis on the upgradation of intelligence machinery, special drives against suspects and their arrest, surveillance over suspected places of shelter used by anti-national elements, joint interrogation of suspects to unearth the ramifications of their inter-state and intra-state linkages and constitution of special investigation teams.
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