Pakistan’s most populous Punjab Province has issued a security alert over possible attacks by the Islamic State militants on sensitive civil and military installations, a media report said on Saturday.
Citing intelligence, the Punjab Home Department alerted police and other agencies in the province that the IS has planned attacks on civil and military targets, Dawn reported.
Quoting its sources, the paper said, in view of the threat level, divisional police chiefs and the Counter-Terrorism Department have been directed to undertake “foolproof security measures”.
These intelligence-based directions contradict the assertions made by the federal government that IS has no presence in Pakistan.
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, however, described the “threat alert” as being “a routine matter“.
