The Chinese diplomatic mission in Pakistan has said that members of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) are planning to kidnap senior Chinese diplomats and consular officers in the country. Chinese diplomats in Pakistan have expressed their concern through a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They said that some members of the ETIM had arrived in Pakistan and were planning to kidnap senior diplomats of the Chinese Embassy, sources told Daily Times. They also said that members of terrorist organisations, including Al Qaeda, were providing support to ETIM activists for the kidnapping, sources said.Sources said that the Chinese diplomats had sought increased security and round-the-clock patrolling of the Chinese diplomatic mission in Islamabad and the consulate general in Karachi. The ETIM is a separatist organisation in the Xinjiang province of China, and seeks independence on grounds of Islamic identity. Sources said that the Interior Ministry had issued directives to the inspectors general of police of the four provinces and the Islamabad Capital Territory to hunt down the ETIM members and report to it as soon as possible. Diplomatic Protection Department Senior Superintendent of Police Tariq Masood Yaseen said that security around the Chinese Embassy building and residences of Chinese diplomats had been tightened. Police officials had also been directed to visit religious seminaries in their areas and investigate possible connections of foreign students, particularly the Chinese nationals, with activists of the ETIM, the sources said.