An intelligence agency’s report reveals that high-profile terror suspects are flouting laws and using mobile phones in their prison cells to contact their accomplices in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and settled regions.
The report was forwarded by the Punjab police chief to the concerned officials. The letter states that militants detained in Adiala, Haripur and Kot Lakhpat prisons are using cell phones to coordinate with their accomplices.
This coordination includes planning and fundraising for terrorist activities. Two militants identified to be doing this while in prison are Qari Waqas in Kot Lakhpat prison and Shamsul Islam in Haripur jail.
A separate intelligence report reveals that India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), in collaboration with Afghan spy agency, planned attacks on Chinese diplomats and other foreigners across Pakistan. The focus however, according to the report, is on Chinese diplomats based in Islamabad.
Al Qaeda militants, meanwhile, are planning kidnapping /assassinations of diplomats in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) embassy and consulates across Pakistan in ‘the near future’ and attack their missions with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
Yet another intelligence report states that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) members based in Miramshah, North Waziristan, planned attacks against law enforcement agencies – specifically, on police patrols near hotels and petrol pumps. In addition, the TTP is planning attacks on two Army Public Schools located in Rawalpindi.
Terrorists are also planning to target Wah Cantonment installations, and for this purpose, a suicide bomber identified as Obaidullah is being trained near Latamber in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, according to sources. The suspect has visited Wah several times for reconnaissance of the target.
Another report revealed that a terrorist with the alias Zarar, operating in Waziristan region, has planned terrorist attacks in Swat and Murree.
These intelligence reports have been forwarded to the National Crisis Management Cell of the interior ministry, provincial home departments, provincial police chiefs and provincial heads of other law enforcement agencies.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 8th, 2012.
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@Basit: Compile a large dossier and forward it to India. They will surely look into your nonsensical literature. After reading and wasting their time, they will issue the following: We need more proof.
@Iftikhar-ur-Rehman: Because the Punjab Khadim E Alaa & law minister are hand in glove involved with the terrorist & part & parcel of of these terrorist & their main financers
@Babloo: But that same "Intelligence Agency" didn't know that Osama bin Laden and extended family was living in the Largest Secure Compound in Abbottabad!!!
@Aarvey,india: We have confessions from captured terrorist plus the long history of RAW and Afghan intelligence KHAD collaborating and conducting attacks in Pakistan. Just open up history book and see what was happening during 80's and Pakistan and stopped only after collapse of Afghan communist regime.
Why our naive intelligence agencies use this info to arrest the other criminals rather than complaining about the cell phones?
Looks like the intelligence reports have covered every conceivable terrorist attack and already assigned responsibility for them. Excellent work. No intelligence agency in the world can match the imaginative and creative skills of this.
Unfortunately this isn't the first time we have read about cell phones being used by terrorist in Pakistani jails -- apparently Pakistan just doesn't care because they aren't doing anything about it.
Surprising you guys can't do even the easiest. Either you employ jammers or bug their mobiles and arrest more terrorists. In India, the terrorism in J&K has come down substantially after roaming was banned for mobiles bought outside J&K. Getting mobiles inside J&K is not easy. By blaming India (without proof) Pak shows helplessness in sorting out a simple problem.
National Crisis Management Cell is the real problem since it was established,people in it God knows working for what.
Why not just install jammers which make cell phones inoperable anywhere on/near the facility -- it's not rocket science.
@Basit: Where is th Evidence that RAW and the Afghan intelligence agency is involved in planning attacks on the Chinese ? Please ask you agencies to provide concrete evidence first.
"A separate intelligence report reveals that India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), in collaboration with Afghan spy agency, planned attacks on Chinese diplomats and other foreigners across Pakistan." Wow. They went a little far out of the range of realism on that gem.
Liberals thrown in a quandary. They must accept that jihadi militants are contacting others in FATA but also accept that RAW and Afghans are conspiring to conduct terrorism in Pakistan.
Put them in graves, not cells. Alive they are trouble
I wonder how does the classified material make it to ET?
Pakistan is an example in tele-density and usage of mobile phone with major population. In this wave of marketing it is being used in jail with criminals. Jail should be subject to use of jammers completely with the permission of the regulatory authority Government of Pakistan. Only fix phone as PTCL 021 prefix or NTC 099 phone connection be used by the jail offies and offiicials. For security/surveillance the jail authorities can use wireless sets after approval from the regulatory authority. This will help crime situation in the jails.
Why hasn't any action has been taken against the JAILER and the identified Terrorists???
Well while this is a bad thing it can also help our case by phone tapping them so their future plans of destruction can be stopped.