Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has turned to its old confidant Dawood Ibrahim seeking his aid to attack the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, if the central intelligence agencies are to be believed.
This has been revealed in a secret note by the intelligence agencies on Modi’s threat perception.
The Gujarat chief minister is also facing threats from various terror outfits. The fresh intelligence gathered by central intelligence agencies reveals that the ISI is taking the underworld don’s assistance to target Modi.
The intelligence note prepared on the threat to Modi has also mentioned about the ISI-Dawood nexus.
“As per an input, Dawood Ibrahim during a meeting with senior ISI functionaries was tasked to restart activities in India and also target Shri Narendra Modi,” the note says.
Sources say the note was prepared after the attack on Modi’s rally in Patna on October 27. As many as eight people were killed in the eight explosions that hit Patna during the Modi rally. It is suspected that the Indian Mujahideen were responsible for the attack.
The intelligence note also reveals that Modi faces a risk not just within India but also from other countries. Other than Pakistan’s ISI, terror operatives in Saudi Arabia are also targeting Modi.
“Islamic fundamentalists based in Saudi Arabia are planning attack Modi,” the note says.
According to the inputs gathered by intelligence agencies, a terror operative – Shahid alias Bilal – has informed an unidentified associate in Saudi Arabia that a suicide attack would be a better option as against a remote-controlled Improvised Explosive Device (IED) to attack Modi.
Another revelation made in the note is about the possibility of some Indian security officials turning rouge and helping terror groups to attack Modi. The note states that Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) operatives have recruited some security officials to allow free access to them.
According to intelligence inputs from central intelligence agencies, banned outfit Student Islamic Students of India (SIMI) is collaborating with other terror outfits and seeking their help to attack Modi.
“SIMI members have been networking with LeT, Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM),” the note says.
According to the note, SIMI activists who were arrested recently reveal that the outfit is organising training camps and a suicide wing called Shaheen Force is being organised to target senior political leaders, including Modi, who tops the hit list.
The note also mentions that Modi faces a threat from Maoists. The intelligence note outlines the various modus operandi that the terror outfits would resort to.
Use of launchers to target Modi’s convoy and ramming an explosives-laden vehicle into his convoy are two of the many options that have been listed. Suicide attacks are another method that terror outfits could use.
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