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Pak puts troops on Afghan border on alert, Mullah Omar shifted

The measure followed Pakistani intelligence reports reaching Quetta that 'besides repositioning their light and heavy artillery guns, Taleban security officials have also shifted their supreme commander Mullah Omar from his widely known headquarters in Kandahar to an unknown destination', the The News International reported.

All troops in Baluchistan province and North West Frontier Province have been placed on 'high alert as a precaution against possible US military strikes', the daily said.

It said the regular Pakistan army troops, along with the Frontier Corps and other paramilitary forces, 'would observe extra vigil to meet the situation that may arise because of a possible US military action in this region'.

"The high degree of alert on the part of the troops assigned to Corps 12 and Corps 11 of the Pakistani army, headquartered in Peshawar and Quetta, would essentially meet any contingency," the report said. The daily quoted a senior security official from Quetta as saying, "We have definite reports that the Taleban are now preparing to meet a major US military onslaught. There is a war-like situation in the Taleban military installations inside Afghanistan."

Meanwhile, Pakistan's Awami National Party has demanded a ban on all jehadi (holy war) outfits operating from the country, its senior vice president Ehsan Wyne was quoted by a leading daily as having said.

The Dawn newspaper quoted Wyne as having told reporters that the party's central working committee thought that if individual organisations were allowed to launch jehad, 'the country would ultimately face anarchy, the consequences of which might be very serious'.

The reports also said scenes of celebrations were witnessed in Islamabad and Lahore on Tuesday soon after the news of the terror strikes in the US spread.

People in some markets, like the Aabpara market, and the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad were seen embracing and congratulating each other saying the US has been 'taught a lesson', the reports said.

Students of the Quaid-e-Azam University came out on the roads and were seen dancing and shouting with joy and embracing each other, the reports added.

PTI

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