New Delhi: The Pakistani Taliban has prepared a hit list of 300-high profile figures. Among those that could be targeted are the leadership of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, Awami National Party, Muttahida Qaumi Movement and anti-Taliban Shia and Sunni clerics, said source close to an intelligence agency.
Personnel from intelligence and law enforcement agencies, officials from the federal interior and provincial ministries and journalists could also be targeted.
The leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, is learnt to have prepared the list. Mehsud is alleged to be the mastermind behind former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's assasination last year.
Pakistan's security agencies have been put on high alert. Apart from the political leaders, the hit-list also names anti-Taliban Shia and Sunni clerics.
The families of the political leadership and law enforcement personnel are also believed to be at risk, news agency PTI quoted sources as saying.
The MQM's leadership was alerted by law enforcement agencies when members of the Jundullah militant groups were arrested on charges of attacking the former Corps Commander of Karachi, Lt Gen Ahsan Hayat.
During interrogations, the arrested men confessed that they targeted the MQM's leadership as its members were perceived as "American agents".
(With inputs from PTI)
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