Intelligence Agencies have received inputs that 11 members suicide squad of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) led by Khalid Azhar, a distant cousin of Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar, reached at Mahesh Khali coast of Chittagong madarsa in Bangladesh and instructions have been issued to infiltrate these cadres to India between November 15 and 20 to target top BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
Security agencies have alerted that Pakistani terrorists are using the Bangladesh border to carry out terror strikes in India.
According to sources, JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar is pushing suicide squad to carry out terror activities in the poll-bound Gujarat.
“The terrorists are staying in Chittagoong madarsas,” sources said. last week, the BSF’s intelligence unit shared this information with the central intelligence agencies, security forces and police establishments that 11 members suicide squad of JeM reached Chittagoong in Bangladesh from Karachi port.
The other leaders who are in the hit list include UP chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath, Goa CM Manohar Parrikar, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
“It is requested to take all precautionary measures to prevent any untoward incident,” an alert issued by Rajiv Ranjan Bhagat , IG of Police ( intl-I)Gandhi Nagar.
Recently Gujarat ATS has arrested two suspected ISIS terrorists from Surat who were planning terror attack in the state during the upcoming Gujarat assembly elections. The duo have been identified as Qasim and Obaid who were in touch with ISIS through social media. They even conducted recce at some religious places in the state.
The election in Gujarat is to be held in two phases on December 9 and 14, and its result will be announced on December 18.
Recently Talha Rasheed, nephew of Jaish-e- Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar, was among the three militants (including two foreigners) killed in the encounter at Aglar in Pulwama in the first week of November.