| Following an attack on Agha Ziauddin, prominent Shia community leader and imam of the main Gilgit mosque, that left him seriously injured and his two bodyguards dead, law enforcement agencies were on high alert throughout the Punjab province on Saturday. Punjab Home Secretary Hassan Waseem Afzal told Daily Times that the alert was issued to avoid violence similar to that in Gilgit city. Orders for the alert were issued late on Saturday, he added. However, sources said orders for the alert were issued in light of the federal government's instructions that the terrorists from the tribal areas had entered the provinces and could threaten the law and order there. "Information that terrorists are planning to kidnap a VIP has been received. In fact, law enforcement agencies are on alert throughout Pakistan," sources added. The district nazims, district police officers, senior superintendents of police and intelligence agencies have been asked to monitor the situation in their respective areas. |