| Intelligence agencies have warned the government that militants from tribal areas bordering Afghanistan might possibly use carpet brushes to conceal explosives for sabotage, Daily Times has learnt. The agencies, in their separate reports submitted to the Interior Ministry, said an unidentified person recently approached the shopkeepers of IchhraÂ’s furniture market in Lahore for creating a concealed space in carpet brushes. When enquired, he told shopkeepers that he would place cell phone sets in the brushes. He left the market on refusal. The agencies warned that militants could use carpet brushes to avenge killings by the security forces in tribal areas. Sources said in the light of the warning, the Interior Ministry had directed home secretaries, provincial police chiefs and the Islamabad chief commissioner to constitute teams of Special Branch at district level to visit markets and keep an eye on the visitors. |