Canada is the latest country--after the U.S., the U.K. and Australia--in warning their citizens traveling to India about a threat of an imminent Islamist terrorist attack in capital New Delhi.
This travel advisory was the third sent out in recent days, cautioning tourists to avoid New Delhi's popular Chandni Chowk area in Old Delhi. The U.S., the U.K. and Australia have also warned of imminent terror threat in New Delhi, particularly in market places like Connaught Place, Greater Kailash and Chandni Chowk, where crowds throng, especially during week-ends.
Reports citing intelligence sources say emails recently received from some servers in Pakistan by sports organizations in the U.K., Canada and Australia warn them not to send athletes to Delhi for participaating in the Games.
Intelligence agencies also suspect that Islamic terrorists might be planning to target the infrastructure of the Commonwealth Games, as also its participants and organizers ahead of the Games.
Meanwhile, it is reported that a Kashmiri Muslim was arrested for allegedly being a major part of a plan to attack Delhi this weekend. The Jammu and Kashmir police say Umar Zargar, allegedly operating on behalf of the Pakistan-based Islamic terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), has confessed to his planned role to carry out bomb attacks in Delhi.
Zargar was to have picked up a consignment of explosives and reach Delhi April 27 to carry out the attacks, but was detained last week as part of a group of persons who throw stones at members of the security forces.
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