Pakistan’s Intelligence Bureau (IB) has claimed that Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies were plotting to disrupt the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
Pakistan’s Intelligence Bureau (IB) has claimed that Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies were plotting to disrupt the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
The IB said that Research and Analysis Wing, Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security, banned outfit Tehrik-e-Taliban, East Turkmenistan Islamic Movement and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were actively making plans to disrupt CPEC.
Briefing the senate standing committee, director general Intelligence Bureau Aftab Sultan said the department arrested several militants while foiling their numerous terror bids.
He said that IB offices would be established on the major routes of CPEC. However, due to scarcity of manpower they would not focus on every project. He said that the unit submits audit reports over important projects on a regular basis.
Chairman of the session senator Talha Mehmood appreciated performance of the agency and directed it to form a special wing to fail ‘nefarious intentions of the terrorists’.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has told China’s Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong that his party’s planned protest next month was not directed at the USD 46 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (project. This message was conveyed to the Chinese envoy at Imran’s Bani Gala residence. Imran reportedly told the envoy that the protest was aimed at the ‘rampant corruption’ of the government.
