Obama's India visit: Intelligence Bureau warns against ISI trying to push in LeT terrorists to launch attacks

NEW DELHI: Ahead of Obama visit, intelligence inputs on terror threats seem to be coming by the dozen. After inputs about five suspected terrorists having entered India to target Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai and six LeT operatives having infiltrated into Kathua in Jammu recently, now there is a fresh input that a major rank officer from Pakistan's spy agency- ISI- has been given the responsibility to push in two batches of five Lashkar terrorists each across the border.

There is information about the groups waiting at Rum (Sialkot) in Pakistan before being launched into India. The terrorists have been tasked to launch a fidayeen attack inside India during the visit, said home ministry sources.

Although there is no indication that any of these groups have been instructed to move to Delhi or launch an attack targeting the Republic Day, all infiltration attempts are being watched with utmost seriousness.

Sources said the intelligence was generated through telephonic intercepts and has been shared with Delhi Police, UP police and authorities in Jammu and Kashmir apart from BSF and Army which guard the Indo-Pak border in Kashmir.

BSF had recently added 1,200 extra men to bolster patrolling on the western border in the light of increasing intelligence inputs about Pakistan trying to push in terrorists. BSF has even installed state-of-the-art gadgets such as thermal imaging cameras and laser walls on unfenced stretches of the border.

In the last few days there have been a series of inputs on suspected terror attacks in the country. While some of them have been shared by US and UK agencies, several have been generated by the Intelligence Bureau.

Sources, however, said there is as yet no specific intelligence on any threat to Barack Obama's visit.