Centre sounds all-India security alert
September 30, 2016 17:53
The Centre on Friday issued a country-wide alert asking the states to heighten vigil to foil any attempt by Pakistan-based terror groups to carry out attacks amid apprehensions of backlash by terrorists after the surgical strike on their launch pads in PoK.
In a advisory, the home ministry conveyed to the states that additional forces should be deployed in all sensitive places, strategic installations, markets, religious places and other key places to ensure security, an official source said.
Metro cities were particularly asked to be extra vigilant.
States touching the border with Pakistan -- Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat -- were also directed to remain vigilant, sources said.
The advisory has been sent in the wake of yesterday's surgical strike by Indian army in terror launch pads in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
Sources said there is high probability that Pakistani agencies may try to use the terror groups to carry out strike in Indian soil to avenge yesterday's attack.
India carried out surgical strikes on seven terror launch pads across the LoC on the intervening night of September 28 and 29, with the army saying it inflicted "significant casualties" on terrorists preparing to infiltrate from PoK, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned Uri attack would not go unpunished.
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