Lahore, Sept 21(ANI): Pakistan's top intelligence agency has warned the federal and provincial authorities that various Taliban and al-Qaeda splinter groups are making all out efforts to target the country's political elite by using female suicide bombers, according to a news report.
The intelligence agency has sent a confidential report to the federal government and provincial authorities, indicating possible terror attacks by female suicide bombers in posh areas of big cities, The Nation reported, attributing to sources.
Some Taliban splinter groups were planning to exploit young women for suicide bombings, an intelligence source was quoted as saying.
"Intelligence-sharing between security forces and the authorities, both at provincial and Federal level, is underway in this regard," the sources added.
This fresh terror-alert has been sounded all over the country in the wake of the deadly strikes carried out by militants, targeting the personnel of security force and even their families in Quetta and Karachi.
Sources claimed that different al-Qaeda and Taliban offshoots had carried out those deadly attacks by exploding explosive-laden vehicles in big cities.
"Purely, such attacks are the handiwork of global Jehadi network, as local groups are incapable of carrying out such type of sophisticated and large-scale strikes," an official was quoted as saying.
A number of al-Qaeda offshoots - including the Pakistani Taliban, Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI), Lashkar-i-Jhangvi al-Alami and Punjabi Taliban - have launched an all-out war on Pakistan, the paper said.
"Now the terrorists are killing women and children by carrying out suicide attacks even in residential areas and at public places. Such types of attacks are likely to escalate in future," it quoted a senior intelligence official, as saying on the condition of anonymity. (ANI)
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