January 19, 2008	Saturday	Muharram 09, 1429

RAWALPINDI, Jan 18: Four people detained on suspicion during a security check at the Shah Chan Charagh Majlis late on Thursday night will be freed after some verifications.

SP Khuram Shahzad said that two of the suspects were identified as employees of a private security company. They were carrying licensed weapons and the two other were labourers.

He denied that the four had been planning a terrorist attack.

He said: “The two boys were wearing black shalwar kameez and jeans underneath it which aroused suspicions and the two security guards were carrying weapons when stopped for security check.”

“They all have been cleared. They had just come to see what was happening inside, nothing else,” he said.

Meanwhile, security for prominent political figures has been beefed up in the light of intelligence reports that 11 militants have entered areas of their assigned targets.

“Besides strengthening security for some former federal ministers and a CID officer of Rawalpindi, who had been facing threats of attack, the security cover is also being provided to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif who is also on the hit list,” a senior police official said.

He said the former federal ministers and the office of CID officer in Rawalpindi had been advised to comply with security instructions.

Concrete blocks have been put up outside a former federal minister’s residence to avert any terrorist attack like crashing an explosive laden vehicle.