04 November 2004	Thursday	20 Ramazan 1425

RAWALPINDI, Nov 3: The government has directed the law- enforcement agencies to step up security around several senior Qadiani citizens and their worship places in the light of intelligence that terrorists could strike them in the near future , a security source said on Wednesday.

He said in line with the report that someone from Ahmedis could be targeted by terrorists, the interior ministry had directed the provincial governments and the Islamabad administration to tighten security around several Qadianis and their institutions. Earlier, the government had directed the law-enforcement agencies to beef up security for the Japanese embassy and their nationals working on different projects in the country in the wake of an intelligence that incident like the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers could take place.

PRISONERS ESCAPE: Two under-trial prisoners escaped from the heavily-guarded Adiala Jail on Wednesday, a police source said.

He said a group of prisoners was brought out of their barrack for fatigue when two of them, Mohammad Bakhtiar and Ashiq Hussain, who were busy in cutting grass went missing.

Bakhtiar, a resident of Attock, had been arrested in a drug trafficking case while Hussain had been booked by the Pirwadhai police on charge of theft.

The Saddar Barooni police have registered a case against the prisoners; however, they have not been rearrested.