Inspector General of Police Islamabad divulged that capital police thwarted a Mumbai-style terrorist attack in the federal capital in the first week of June.
Inspector General of Police Tariq Masood in a briefing to the Senate Standing Committee on Interior informed that the terror bid was foiled with the help of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and high tech surveillance cameras recently installed across the city under the Safe City Project.
On the occasion the interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan added that police should refrain from giving statements which could cause fear among the general public.
IGP Masood said the Inter Services Intelligence authorities informed him and the Islamabad chief commissioner about a possible terror plot on the inauguration of the Safe City Project.
According to Express Tribune Pakistan, Senior police officials revealed ISI intercepted some telephone calls about that the planned attack similar to the one in Mumbai in 2008. Some 13 terrorists were supposed to attack a premier public sector university and a five-star hotel in Islamabad simultaneously,
“It became a test case for newly installed Safe City Project,” the IGP informed the committee. Police, he said, worked throughout the day, extensively monitoring all entry and exit points and other important and sensitive locations of the capital in a bid to avert the possible attack.
“Cost incurred on the Safe City Project is justified as we successfully warded off that terror incident,” the police chief said in response to a question related to cost of the project.
