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High-profile terror suspects in Pakistan are flouting laws by using mobile phones in their prison cells to contact their accomplices in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and settled regions, an intelligence agency report has revealed. The report states that militants detained in Adiala, Haripur and Kot Lakhpat prisons are using cell phones to coordinate with their accomplices. This coordination includes planning and fundraising for terrorist activities, reports The Express Tribune. Two militants using mobile phones in prison have been identified as Qari Waqas in Kot Lakhpat prison and Shamsul Islam in Haripur jail. Al-Qaeda militants, meanwhile, are planning kidnapping and assassinations of diplomats in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) embassy and consulates across Pakistan in 'the near future' and carry out their attacks with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), states the report. Another intelligence report states that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) members based in Miramshah, North Waziristan, planned attacks against law enforcement agencies and on two Army Public Schools located in Rawalpindi. Terrorists are also planning to target Wah Cantonment installations, and for this purpose, a suicide bomber identified as Obaidullah is being trained near Latamber in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, according to sources. These intelligence reports have been forwarded to the National Crisis Management Cell of the interior ministry, provincial home departments, provincial police chiefs and provincial heads of other law enforcement agencies.

Jailed terrorists using cellphones to plot terror-strikes across Pakistan