NEW DELHI: Justifying the concern about the increasing activities of externally-inspired and directed terrorist outfits in the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said intelligence agencies had warned of a further intensification of violent terror activities with the possibility of more "fidayeen" (suicide) attacks.

Portraying an alarming scenario of the possible terrorist activities, he said that use of suicide bombers; attacks on economic and religious targets and targeting of vital installations, including nuclear establishments and Army camps, were very much on the agenda of terrorist outfits.

Presiding over a crucial day-long meeting of the Chief Ministers on Internal Security, the Prime Minister said that intelligence reports also suggested that terrorist modules and "sleeper cells" existed in some of the urban areas, all of which highlighted the seriousness of the threat.

The Prime Minister's meeting with the Chief Ministers, the second such since April, was held at his 7 Race Course Road residence. It was aimed at speeding up the exercise of the Centre and the States jointly finding solutions to the internal security problems. Dr. Singh said the country was confronted with an array of complex internal security problems and threats and each of these needed to be dealt with in different ways.

Focussing on Left wing extremism, terrorism and how to assuage feelings of insecurity among minorities, particularly Muslims, the meeting also reviewed developments in the North-East and Jammu and Kashmir.

Stressing upon the need to have greater alertness by the States and local intelligence agencies as also the police, who have a locational advantage, the Prime Minister said that unless the "beat constable" was brought into the vortex of the counter-terrorist strategy, the capacity to pre-empt future attacks would be severely limited.

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