Security agency buildings, hotels under terror threat in Lahore

June 27th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan intelligence agencies have warned that extremists may strike the US embassy, consulates and other strategically important American establishments in the country. According to an intelligence report, a militant named Muhammad Ayub, who belongs to Quetta, has been assigned the work to carry out terror strikes on US buildings, The Daily Times reports.

June 16th, 2009 LAHORE - The Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has claimed that terrorists had targeted the Lahore office of the Inter-Services Intelligence in the May 27 bomb and suicide attack. He was speaking during the Punjab Assembly's 13th session.

June 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan's premier intelligence agency the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has been penetrated by some extremist groups that it had once nurtured to fight in Afghanistan and create havoc in Kashmir, US President Barack Obama's key Advisor Bruce Riedel has said. Addressing delegates at a talk on the Pakistani intelligence agency at the International Spy Museum here recently, Riedel said there are certain reports that suggest that the ISI has links with some of the terror outfits.

June 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - The security has been tightened in Lahore following inputs from Pakistani intelligence agency suggested that terrorists could once again target the city. A comprehensive security plan has been prepared to thwart off any terrorist attack, and security personnel have been deployed at the sensitive government buildings.

June 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - Latest CCTV images of minutes before the terror strike on the Provincial Headquarters of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) have revealed that the security officials were least worried about any terror threat. The video footages, which flooded the local TV channels here, showed a single policeman retaliating to the heavily armed militants, as all his compatriots had fled from the scene immediately after the terrorists opened fire.

May 27th, 2009 LAHORE - A powerful bomb blast rocked Lahore on Wednesday killing over 30 people, besides injuring about 150 people and destroying over 40 vehicles. According to reports, the blast took place in a building situated on Mall road adjacent to the Lahore High Court building.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Government has condemned Wednesday's blast in Lahore and urged the Pakistan Government to join hands with it to fight the menace. "India has always taken the position that whereever there are strikes, we condemn it with all the forces at our command.

April 30th, 2009 LAHORE - Fearing terror threats from the Taliban and other extremist groups, a college here has banned students from wearing jeans and other body hugging dresses. According to the Daily Times, the Kinnaird College (KC) administration has imposed a strict dress code for the students.

April 7th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has warned that Faisalabad could be next on terrorist's hit list. Kaira said there are intelligence reports that the militants are planning to carry out attack in Faisalabad similar to Lahore and Islamabad.

April 5th, 2009 LAHORE - The US based private research agency, Stratfor, has downed comparison between the Manawan police training academy terror strike and the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Stratfor's analysis said that the two incidents should not be compared as the Mumbai attacks were significantly different from the one in Manawan The buildings of the two luxury hotels taken under siege by the terrorist in Mumbai were far more complex in design and occupied a larger area than the training academy's building in Manawan, the report said.

April 2nd, 2009 LAHORE - Indian passenger buses have been barred from entering the city in the wake of the terror attack on a police academy on its outskirts just 12 km from the Wagah border. When the New Delhi-Lahore bus arrived at Wagah Monday, Pakistani security forces were still attempting to recapture the Manawan academy from a group of terrorists who had taken hundreds of trainees hostage.

March 30th, 2009 LAHORE - The attack on the Lahore police training centre Monday was similar to the Mumbai terror strike, Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said while the attack was in progress. Malik told Geo TV that the terror strike in Lahore was similar to the Nov 26-29, 2008 carnage in Mumbai that left about 170 people dead.

March 30th, 2009 LAHORE - At least 20 police trainees were killed and many injured when a group of terrorists struck at a police training academy here Monday and took dozens of men hostage, authorities said. Helicopters hovered in the air Monday as crack assault teams took up positions outside the sprawling Matawan police training centre, which is located a few kilometres away from the Wagah border.

March 12th, 2009 LAHORE - The terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket players in Lahore last week has not only raised concerns over the 2011 cricket World Cup, but it also has alarmed British security agencies involved with preparations for the Twenty-20 World Cup this June. Twenty-20 World Cup Organising Committee Director Steve Elworthy has admitted the attacks have set alarm bells ringing among security agencies.

January 28th, 2009 LAHORE - Three people, allegedly trained by Indian intelligence agency, were arrested Thursday, media reports here said. Lahore police chief Pervaiz Rathore told a press conference here that the three Pakistani citizens were arrested Thursday in a village close to the Indian border in Lahore, Geo TV reported.