Extremists based in Pakistan might be plotting additional terror attacks in India, less than a year after gunmen killed roughly 170 people in Mumbai, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned today (see GSN, July 17).
"Continued vigilance" was necessary despite new safeguards implemented in the aftermath of the strikes on the Indian city, Singh told participants at a domestic security discussion in New Delhi.
"There is credible information of ongoing plans of terrorist groups in Pakistan to carry out fresh attacks," Singh said without elaborating, according to the Associated Press.
Pakistan did not provide an immediate response to Singh's remarks.
"In dealing with the terrorist challenge, we need to be prepared for encountering more sophisticated technologies and enhanced capabilities. We also need to guard our sea frontier as vigilantly as our land border," Singh said.
Indian authorities have concluded that the Mumbai attackers traveled from Pakistan to India by boat.
Violent clashes have erupted repeatedly between the South Asian neighbors since they gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1947. Both nations now possess nuclear weapons (Associated Press/Google News, Aug. 17).