Intelligence reports indicate that foreign elements could seek to exploit PakistanÂ’s internal situation by establishing links with banned militant outfits, Daily Times has learnt. According to intelligence reports submitted to the Interior Ministry, these foreign elements could try to link up with sectarian and nationalist outfits to create trouble within Pakistan. The reports say Pakistan faces internal security threats in the shape of a sectarian crisis as an aftermath of killings of religious leaders by terrorists, assassination attempts on VVIPs and senior politicians, and an anti-government movement turning into violent agitation, the sources said.
In light of these reports, the Interior Ministry has written a letter to the authorities concerned warning that many fault lines in the internal security environment have emerged since the government’s decision to support the war on terror, and policy makers must make a realistic analysis of the available information to determine the outlines of present and future internal security threats. “The need for analysis of threats was felt particularly in the light of information that had been received through interrogation of apprehended Al Qaeda members and religious extremists,” the sources added. They said that the home secretaries and police chiefs of the four provinces and Islamabad have been asked to enhance security measures in their areas.