Security agencies had alerted forces about possible attack at Indo-Pak border

Security agencies had alerted forces along the Indo-Pak border to be alert following a threat by a breakaway faction of Tehrek-e-Taliban-Pakistan that it will carry out a terror strike in India. The outfit had also issued a threat to Prime Minister Narendra Modi which security agencies did not take seriously saying the security of the Prime Minister was under constant review and no threat could be posed by the terror group to him, official sources said here on Wednesday.

The sources said Jamaat Ahrar faction of Tehrek-e-Taliban of Pakistan (TTP-JA) was trying to create a sensation by issuing threat to the Prime Minister as the group was formed in the first week of September. The spokesperson for the terror group had commented on tweet of the Prime Minister's condemnation of blast at Wagah border that left nearly 60 people dead.

"You are the killer of hundreds of Muslims.We wl take the revenge of innocent people of Kashmir amd Gugrat," self-claimed spokesperson for TTP-JA Ehsanullah Ehsan said in a replying tweet on November two. This group had claimed responsibility for the Wagah blast in Pakistan. After the blast, Ehsan had tweeted "this attack is an open message to both governments across the border." However, sources said border guards had been briefed about a possible terror strike by a Pakistani group at least a fortnight ago.