Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Monday said that the country was \u201cpeacefully and very ably\u201d hosting the Champions Trophy as he rubbished Indian media reports of an alleged terror threat to foreigners travelling to Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Earlier today, a report by Indian media outlet News18 said: \u201cPakistan\u2019s Intelligence Bureau issued a high alert on Monday, warning the country\u2019s security forces about an alleged plot by \u2018active covert groups\u2019 to abduct foreign guests attending the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 for ransom.\u201d<\/p>\n
It reported that sources told the outlet about an alert issued against several terror outfits, including the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, Islamic State and other Balochistan-based groups. \u201cIn response to the intelligence warning, Pakistan\u2019s security forces have deployed high-level protection teams, including rangers and local police, to ensure the safety of players and their accompanying staff,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
Another report by India Today singled out the Islamic State Khorasan Province as \u201cspecifically targeting Chinese and Arab nationals\u201d for the alleged ransom attempts.<\/p>\n
Questioned about the matter during an interview on Geo News today, the information minister said: \u201cI would like to state on record that Pakistan is peacefully and very ably hosting the ICC Champions Trophy. Our grounds are full, we have fans from all over the world, the crowds are jubilant, our streets are filled with people who are celebrating the victory of cricket but the Indian media, which is a subservient media, is trying to do politics and spreading false propaganda against Pakistan which is unacceptable and totally untrue.<\/p>\n
\u201cPakistan is one of the safest venues and we have been able to conduct the ICC matches very very peacefully and very efficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Monday said that the country was \u201cpeacefully and very ably\u201d hosting the Champions Trophy as he rubbished Indian media reports of an alleged terror threat to foreigners travelling to Pakistan. Earlier today, a report by Indian media outlet News18 said: \u201cPakistan\u2019s Intelligence Bureau issued a high alert on Monday, warning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5947,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions\/5947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}