Pak suspects India may target CPEC installations: Report
: India may target the installations of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in a bid to sabotage the multibillion project, a media report quoted Pakistan’s interior ministry as saying.
The ministry has informed the Gilgit-Baltistan’s home department that India has made a plan to attack the installations on Karakoram Highway, Dawn newspaper reported.
The ministry has issued directives for making foolproof security arrangements to avoid any untoward incident.
An official of the home department on condition of anonymity told the newspaper that the department had received a letter from the federal interior ministry recently in which it
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had warned of possible terrorist attacks on the CPEC route.
After receiving the interior ministry’s directives, the provincial government has enhanced security on the CPEC route, including two dozen bridges on the route, the report said.
Gilgit-Baltistan Home Secretary Jawad Akram, Inspector General of Police Sabir Ahmed along with other police and intelligence officials visited Diamer district on Saturday to review security arrangements for bridges. IGP Sabir Ahmed said that Karakoram Highway bridges on the CPEC route had been declared sensitive.