Terrorists Attempt to Attack Five Star Hotel in Islamabad Foiled by Islamabad Police

[Pakistanisage]

Good job by intelligence agencies. Hang the RATS by their COJONES...

 

[tarrar]

NDS & RAW funded bastards who were most probably hired from Afghan refugee camp.

 

[nair]

Good Job.... Several innocent lives are saved......

NDS & RAW funded bastards who were most probably hired from Afghan refugee camp.

ISI chief and ISPR Called you directly and personally briefed you i believe.... Congrats by the way.....

 

[New Resolve]

Seriously why do these TV anchors have to yell at the top of their voice, gets very annoying.

 

[CHACHA"G"]

وفاقی دارالحکومت کو دہشت گردی کے بڑے حملوں سے بچالیا ، آئی جی اسلام آباد
دہشتگردوں کاعلامہ اقبال اورقائداعظم یونیورسٹی پرحملوں سمیت سرینا اورمیریٹ ہوٹل میں لوگوں کویرغمال بنانے کا منصوبہ تھا
جمعرات 14 جولائ 2016

گزشتہ ماہ 13 دہشت گردوں کے 2 گروپوں نے اسلام آباد میں حملوں کا منصوبہ بنایا تھا، طارق مسعود یٰسین. فوٹو؛ فائل

اسلام آباد: آئی جی اسلام آباد پولیس طارق مسعود یٰسین کا کہنا ہے کہ وفاقی دارالحکومت میں 13 دہشت گردوں کے 2 گروپوں کا حملہ کرنے کا منصوبہ تھا جسے حساس اداروں نے ناکام بنادیا۔

ایکسپریس نیوز کے مطابق آئی جی اسلام آباد طارق مسعود یٰسین نےسینیٹ کی قائمہ کمیٹی برائے داخلہ کو بریفنگ کے دوران انکشاف کیا کہ 13 دہشت گردوں کے 2 گروپوں نے اسلام آباد میں حملوں کا منصوبہ بنایا تھا جسے حساس اداروں کی جانب سے حملوں سے متعلق ملنے والی معلومات کے بعد ناکام بنادیا گیا۔ انہوں نے بتایا کہ ان حملوں سے متعلق اسلام آباد سیف سٹی منصوبے کے تحت گرفتار کئے گئے ملزموں نے دوران تفتیش انکشاف کیا۔

آئی جی اسلام آباد کے مطابق وفاقی دارالحکومت میں حملہ آروں نے دہشت گردی کے لئے گزشتہ ماہ دو منصوبے بنائے تھے، پلان اے میں قائداعظم یونیورسٹی پر حملہ کرنا اور سرینا ہوٹل میں شہریوں کو یرغمال بنانا تھا جب کہ پلان “بی” میں علامہ اقبال اوپن یونیورسٹی میں خودکش حملہ اور میریٹ ہوٹل میں ملکی و غیر ملکی لوگوں کو یرغمال بنانا تھا۔ ان کا کہنا تھا کہ قومی سلامتی کے اداروں اور پولیس نے مل کر سیف سٹی پر وجیکٹ کے تحت گاڑیوں کو چیک کرکے دہشت گردی کا منصوبہ ناکام بنایا جس کے دوران متعدد ملزمان گرفتار کئے گئے جن سے مزید تفتیش کا سلسلہ جاری ہے۔

'Mumbai-style’ terror bid foiled in Islamabad
Top cop says Safe City Project helped thwart attack
By Danish Hussain
Published: July 15, 2016

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad’s top cop revealed on Thursday that police thwarted a Mumbai-style terrorist attack in the federal capital in the first week of June.

Inspector General of Police Tariq Masood informed the Senate Standing Committee on Interior that the terror bid was foiled with the help of surveillance cameras recently installed across the city under the multimillion-rupee Safe City Project.

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The stunning revelation, however, displeased the interior minister who said police should refrain from giving statements which could cause fear among the general public.

Briefing the Senate panel at a day when authorities were preparing to celebrate the inauguration of the Safe City Project, IGP Masood said the country’s premier intelligence agency informed him and the Islamabad chief commissioner about a possible terror plot.

Although Masood did not share further details of the terror plot before the committee, senior police officials later revealed that the planned attack was 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, the officials said. Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) learned of the plot after intercepting some telephone calls.

“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.

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Some 1,850 security cameras have been installed and connected to a central command and control centre as part of the Rs124.9 million Safe City Project. The committee was informed that Huawei, the contractor of the project, has agreed to train some 1,000 personnel to operate the project in future.

Safe City Project Director Dr Tahir Akram told the committee that installation and commissioning of the project was complete. Not a single camera was damaged because of recent rain storms in the capital. He clarified some media reports and said that criminals’ data would be fed in the database so that any criminal in the capital could be traced with the security cameras.

SSP Traffic Islamabad Malik Matloob told the committee Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) has been equipped with modern gadgets and old challan books are being replaced with e-ticketing system.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 15th, 2016.


http://tribune.com.pk/story/1142168/senate-panel-meeting-mumbai-style-terror-bid-foiled-islamabad/


13 terrorists arrested from federal capital

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior was informed by the IG Islamabad Police, Tariq Masood Yasin, on Thursday that 13 terrorists who were planning to target four installations including five star hotels were arrested last month. The IG told the committee which met under the chairmanship of Senator Rehman A Malik that the terrorists belonging to the banned TTP were being backed by the Indian Intelligence Agency RAW and the Afghan Intelligence Agency.

He said the Safe City Project was very effective for security, law and order and crimes' prevention. He said the Safe City Project in Islamabad was operational and the cameras installed at different places had been linked to different departments. He assured to further improve the project adding that it would be a role model for other provinces too.

He disclosed that the terrorists had prepared a major terror plan forIslamabad in the first week of June. He said an intelligence agency had informed about the entry of 13 terrorists in Islamabad.

Acting on the intelligence report, the police and other law enforcement institutions were alerted. The vehicles of the terrorists were identified through "Safe City Cameras". They were not allowed to enter Islamabad city and were arrested.

He said Islamabad was saved from vast destruction. He said the terrorists wanted to hit two five start hotels as well as the Quaid-e-Azam University and the Allama Iqbal OpenUniversity.

Answering a question about the cost of the project, the IG said the cost of the entire project had been recovered by foiling the major terror bid through the "Safe City Cameras". The IG also said that there was no political pressure on him as the interior minister had given him full powers.

Senator Rehman Malik said that he had started the Safe City Project as the interior minister and lauded Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for completing it.

He also suggested the setting up of a central data base of criminals across the country. He directed the interior ministry to consult the provinces in this connection.

Rehman Malik asked the IG Sindh to submit a report about the investigation into the murder of Amjad Sabri.

The IG Islamabad said he was himself supervising the investigation into the murder of PIM's Professor Dr Shahid and the committee would be informed of progress in the investigation.

http://dailytimes.com.pk/islamabad/15-Jul-16/islamabad-saved-from-terrorist-attack-in-june


Mumbai-style terror strike on capital thwarted
Islamabad police chief’s statement before Senate panel angers interior minister
July 15, 2016

Imran Mukhtar

ISLAMABAD - The police, on a tip-off from Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), thwarted a major terrorist attack in the capital last month with the use of security cameras of Safe City Project, the Islamabad IGP revealed yesterday.

“We saved the capital from Mumbai-style terror attacks,” he said and declined to give more details about the arrests in this regard.

“We thwarted this attack plot through enhancement of security and snap checking of vehicles under the Safe City Project and I think the money spent on the project has yielded its fruits with the foiling of this biggest terror bid,” Islamabad IGP Tariq Masood Yaseen told the Senate Standing Committee on Interior.

“We were ready to cut the cake with the complete operationalisation of the project when the same evening ISI informed me at a meeting about the biggest terrorist threat the city was facing,” said the IGP, adding this became a test case for the Safe City Project. He told the committee that the Islamabad police worked round the clock to foil the terror bid by increasing security and identifying suspicious vehicles for snap checking through security cameras.

The much-delayed Islamabad Safe City Project was inaugurated on the 6th of the last month with the installation of 1,850 modern surveillance cameras around the capital and establishment of a command and control centre in Sector H-11. The project was completed at a cost of 124.917 million US dollars through a loan given by the Chinese government. It had the capacity to monitor entry and exit points of the capital, its roads, commercial centres, important buildings etc.

However, the remarks of the IGP triggered displeasure for Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. In his informal talk with journalists, Nisar said the police chief should not have made this statement in public as this had caused a wave of fear among them. “We should avoid giving such statements,” he averred.

According to sources, the police had received a tip-off from the premier intelligence agency that terrorists were planning to attack Quaid-e-Azam University, one of the biggest public sector varsities of the country, and a local hotel. The agency had traced some phone calls knowing about planning of the terrorists. The terrorists also wanted to make some people hostage from the hotel building.

The IGP, briefing the Senate committee which met under the chairmanship of Senator Rehman Malik, said the biggest issue in the smooth functioning of Safe City Project was that its end user was not decided. He said, “National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) was the executing agency, Chinese company, Huawei, was to complete it and then Nadra was to hand it over to the police. The matter has been resolved now as Islamabad Police would be its end user and we have linked Rescue-15 and Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) to the command and control centre of the project. The organisational setup for the project was being devised as an officer of SP rank would head it and the system of the project is based on challenge and response.”

“The project has been extended through smart police cars as the cameras cannot cover some areas of the capital,” the IGP said, adding these smart cars would be linked with the command centre and could search areas through the cameras installed in these vehicles. “We have brought out another aspect of the project, research and training with regard to the security, and efforts were being made to sign an MOU with a public university,” he said. “Safe City Project is going to be a centre of excellence for research and training. Similarly, Huawei, the contractor of the project, has agreed to make training modules and train 1,000 personnel to run the project,” the IGP said, adding there was a need to shift the police from traditional ways of policing to modern technology.

The project director of Safe City Project, Dr Tahir Akram, told the committee that installation and commissioning of the project was complete. Not a single camera was damaged because of the recent rainstorm in the capital, he claimed and added criminals’ data would be fed in the database to trace them through the security cameras.

SSP Traffic Malik Matloob told the Senate committee that Islamabad Traffic Police was being equipped with modern gadgets and old challan books were being replaced with e-ticketing system. “We are switching to android mobile system where violation fee could be paid on line through the gadgets with traffic officers,” he affirmed. He pointed out the online challan system would have complete history of any licence holder’s violations and his/her licence would be cancelled if violations crossed a certain limit. “The online system would be attached with the excise and taxation office and the crime investigation department of the police,” he asserted. He said efforts were underway to link the provincial driving licences’ data with ITP to check the history of any traffic violator.

The committee viewed laws would have to be amended to match with the new technology-based system. The committee would give its recommendations to amend the laws and increase penalties over some traffic violations, Rehman Malik said.

The additional interior secretary informed the lawmakers that negotiations with the provinces were underway to have a central database of criminals for the support of Safe City Project.

On a query from the committee members, the acting Nadra chairman said the authority had not stopped issuing or renewing NICOPs (National Identity Cards for Overseas Pakistanis and POCs (Pakistan Origin Cards). Only the issuance or renewal of POCs to foreign spouses of Pakistani nationals had been made conditional with the security clearance, he said.

The Ministry of Interior showed its reluctance to give a briefing to the committee on the implementation of the 20-point National Action Plan (NAP). It is worth mentioning that briefing on NAP was on the agenda of the meeting. The additional secretary said the interior minister had briefed the National Assembly on the NAP implementation in detail some two months back. “The National Assembly has its own importance and the committee its own,” remarked Rehman Malik.

Published in The Nation newspaper on 15-Jul-2016

http://nation.com.pk/national/15-Jul-2016/mumbai-style-terror-strike-on-capital-thwarted

 

[Areesh]

Ye Assault Rifle ka chkr kia he?

He is a TTP fan from India.

 

[tarrar]

Good Job.... Several innocent lives are saved......



ISI chief and ISPR Called you directly and personally briefed you i believe.... Congrats by the way.....

Don't act like a jabroni