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News Flash Posted On Monday, November 16, 2009 | Agencies
New Delhi, Nov 16:
Nuclear installations across the country have been put on high alert in the wake of an intelligence advisory stating these sites might be on terror radar. The advisory was issued following the arrest of a suspected Pakistani spy from the Indira Gandhi International Airport here.
Reports suggest that nuclear sites across three states - Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra - have been put on high alert. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre is said to be the prime target.
Security has also been beefed up in the coastal states.
While security agencies have refused to reveal any detail, it seems that the arrested spy has made some startling revelations. The Union Home Secretary had informed yesterday about the arrest of a Pakistani ISI spy, Aamir Ali, from the IGI Airport.
His real name is said to be Abdul and he was trying to board a flight to Saudi Arabia from where he wanted to go to Pakistan. Police recovered a fake passport from him bearing the name of Aamir.
Abdul alias Aamir was staying in Shahdara and was a highly trained Pakistani spy. His job was to send information about the Indian Army across the border. He had allegedly sent information on Ghaziabad's Hindon airbase and Meerut cantonment area to Pakistan through the Internet.
The ISI agent is said to be in his mid-40s. He had earlier stayed in Lucknow and was now looking to make Delhi his home. He had even started working in a mobile repair shop. Another aide of his was arrested in the year 2007.
Following Aamir's arrest several police teams have been dispatched to UP cities.
The national capital was also put on high alert last week after inputs that suspected LeT operative David Headley might have conducted a recee for carrying out a terror strike.
Home Ministry officials had then said that the alerts were issued as a precautionary measure to the cities after it was found during investigations that Headley, who was arrested by FBI, had visited India nine times during 2006-09.
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