India pulled two naval warships out of the Kolkata port on Tuesday after receiving intelligence that they might be targeted by terrorists, a navy officer familiar with the matter said. The INS Khukri and INS Sumitra had entered the port of the city previously known as Calcutta late 3 November and had been scheduled to stay until Tuesday for public viewings, said the official, who asked not to be identified because the intelligence data isn’t public. The public visiting programme has been cancelled, the official said. Kolkata remains on high alert, K.S. Dhatwalia, a spokesman for home ministry, said by phone from New Delhi on Wednesday. He declined to comment on precautions Indian police and intelligence agencies are taking to thwart an attack and said he wasn’t aware of who was behind the potential plot. The decision to move the ships occurred two months after al-Qaeda said it planned to start operating in India and two days after a suicide bomber killed 55 people on the Pakistani side of that nation’s busiest border crossing with India. Islamist terrorists may be seeking to capitalize on divisions between India’s Hindu majority and its Muslim community, which accounts for about 13% of the population.



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