Hyderabad, Aug 14 : A high alert has been sounded at Hyderabad and across Andhra Pradesh after an unknown terrorist group, 'Alkahida Zihaad', threatened to target Chief Minister K Rosaiah on the Independence Day tomorrow.The e-mail to a Telugu television channel late on August 12 warned that ''their agents'' had entered Hyderabad, Vikarabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Anantapur, Kadapa and Visakhapatnam ''on the mission''.''We are not joking,'' the mail claimed, adding that the Chief Minister was also their target. They further admitted that they had failed to bomb Imax theatre at Hyderabad.Security was upgraded at all government buildings, including the State Secretariat and frisking was underway at many checkpoints.The traffic on the Begumpet-Secunderabad Flyovers has been stopped as the flyover passes just behind the rostrum from where the Chief Minister will review the Independence Day Parade at Secunderabad Parade Grounds tomorrow.Mr Rosaiah will unfurl the national tricolour for the first time as the Chief Minister.
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