RAWALPINDI, Sept 14: Rawalpindi has been put on heightened security alert in the wake of intelligence reports of terrorists threat to President Pervez Musharraf, official sources said on Sunday.

Elite force and police contingents were deployed on roads leading to the Army House (the official residence of Gen Musharraf) late on Saturday night, the sources said, adding that police pickets had also been set up at all exit and entry points.

The elite force and police contingents continued patrolling around the Army House from dusk to dawn while travellers, including pedestrians using the road along the Army House, were being frisked and questioned.

“At the moment, there is nothing to suggest a specific threat to the president. However, we have taken precautionary security measures and deployed police and the elite force in the wake of intelligence reports,” a police official said.