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Afghanistan/South Asia
Security beefed up at Baglihar after threats by militants
2005-05-04
Security at the under-construction Baglihar project has been beefed up after intercepts revealed militants were planning to target it and kidnap foreigners working there, a top police official said. "We have activated high security in and around the Baglihar power project in Chanderkot area of Doda district in Kashmir after intercepting militants' conversation of targeting the project," Doda-Udhampur range Deputy Inspector General of Police Satvir Gupta told PTI on Tuesday. "Hizbul Mujahideen intercepts by the police revealed that they were planning to target the project site and their main objective could be to kidnap foreigners working there," he said.

The DIG said that besides throwing a security blanket around the project, all the six foreigners working at the Rs 70 billion project had been provided special security, he said. "Each foreigner has been given a personal security officer and security pickets have also been set up in the residential area of these engineers," he said. About a fortnight back the Union Power Ministry had also told the state government that it had received a note from the Prime Minister's Office that militant organisation Hizbul Mujahideen was planning a suicide attack on the project. Gupta said plainclothes security personnel had been deployed to monitor suspicious people.
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