The move comes following reports that they played a role in radicalising junior officers of the armed forces.
Members of the the Tableeghi jamaat are likely to be barred from mosques within cantonments and defence institutions across Pakistan following reports that they played a role in radicalising junior officers of the armed forces.
People who are not permanent residents of cantonments or areas around defence and security installations too will not be allowed into mosques in sensitive locations, The News daily quoted its sources as saying.
'Security agencies have been suggesting such measures from time to time in the past in view of growing terrorism,' the paper quoted a senior unnamed security officer as saying. 'It has happened in the past that junior officials of the Pakistan Air Force got one-year-long leave on the pretext of accompanying the preaching groups, but when they were later arrested, it transpired that they had in fact been training with different militant groups.'
The most important revelation made by those arrested and interrogated about their alleged involvement in terrorism acts was that 'their militancy grew on religious grounds more than all other factors', the officer was quoted as saying.
After Osama bin Laden's killing in an American raid in Abbottabad on May 2, Pakistan faced the 'most serious threat from internal terrorism, which had already started', the officer said.
Terrorist groups, including the Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaeda, have vowed to avenge bin Laden's death.
Security agencies were worried about law and order in Pakistan, the officer told the daily.
'The problem would not be resolved by mere issuance of security warnings and alerts about the possibility of terrorism incidents in the wake of the killing of Osama,' the officer said.
Since bin Laden's death, the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for three major attacks, one by two suicide bombers that killed nearly 90 people, most of them paramilitary recruits, at Shabqadar in the northwest, a car bombing on a US consulate vehicle convoy in Peshawar and an assault on PNS Mehran, the Pakistan Navy's main naval air station in Karachi, that killed 10 security personnel.
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