| Foreign aid agencies suspended their activities in Balochistan after a terrorist threat on Sunday. Police was deployed at the offices of foreigners working for non-government organisations (NGOs). Balochistan Inspector General (IG) of Police Yaqub Chaudhry said security had been increased for foreigners in Quetta and other parts of the province. Foreigners were asked to inform the police of their movements for security purposes, he said, adding that terrorist threats had been received in the past but were mostly not carried through. An official working for aid agency Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) said they had closed down their offices and would meet on Wednesday to plan strategy. MSF works for Afghan refugees inside Pakistan and Afghanistan. An Afghan commissioner had issued a letter to all NGOs on Saturday, alerting them of attacks by Al Qaeda or the Taliban in Balochistan. The letter quoted an Afghan refugee organisation as saying that some elements could attack foreigners. United Nations High Commission for Refugees spokesman Babar Baloch said they had also received a letter from the Afghan commissioner asking them to increase security around their offices and adopt security measures while travelling. He said the repatriation of Afghan refugees was in full swing but they had to suspend work till further orders. |