Federal security agencies said they received an alert of a possible suicide attack by a Pakistan-based militant group on politicians in Jammu & Kashmir, including Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.

This has put central security agencies on guard and sweeping changes, including fresh training for security personnel, have been proposed, local media reports said Friday.

The federal Interior Ministry sent directives to the state government asking its special guard, which is in charge of the security of the chief minister and others, to undergo rigorous training either by the elite National Security Guard or any other professional agency, a ministry official said.

The directive has come in the wake of several intelligence inputs that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed might carry out a suicide attack on Azad and other state politicians who have been holding several roadside meetings ahead of legislative elections in the state.