Lashkar planned to kill Narendra Modi

According to one of the American diplomatic cables made public by whistleblower website WikiLeaks, Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had made elaborate plans in June last year to assassinate Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi

The timing of the plot is significant, reports The Times of India. It was hatched seven months after Lashkar's attack on Mumbai in November 2008. The cable underlines that the pressure on Pakistan post-26/11 did not deter Lashkar from planning fresh terror attacks, the newspaper adds.

Modi has been on the hit list of terror groups who have cited the Gujarat riots during his tenure to find recruits and to radicalise sections of Indian Muslims.