Security for Pak cricket team reviewed

A country-wide alert has been sounded against terror strikes in the wake of an e-mail to a channel threatening an attack on the team.

Security for visiting Pakistani cricket team was on Saturday strengthened and a country-wide alert sounded by Union Home Ministry against terror strikes in the wake of an e-mail to a television channel threatening an attack on the team and a series of explosions.

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An alert was sounded following intelligence inputs suggesting that various sleeper cells of militants outfits like banned Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islamia (HuJI) and Lashker-e- Taiba (LeT) would be targeting some key installations in the country, official sources said.

They said the security for the Pakistani cricket team, now playing a test match here, was further strengthened with more security personnel deployed at the hotels where they are staying.

The states and the Union territories have been asked to keep a strict vigil on their entry and exit points and deploy strengthen intelligence-gathering.

The states have also been asked to ensure beefed-up security to the public transport system which could be the target of militants, the sources said.

The email address -- guru_boys2000@yahoo.Com -- was created yesterday and central security agencies were trying to trace it.