ISLAMABAD, June 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Offices of the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Quetta, capital of Pakistan's western Balochistan province, have taken extra-precautions against possible terrorist attacks, a UNHCR official said Sunday.

    In a telephone conversation with Xinhua, Jack Redden who workedat UNHCR Islamabad press information office said the UN refugee group has received warnings from the Pakistani government that there could be imminent suicide attacks on its offices in Quetta.

    "Therefore, we have taken extra-precautions and all necessary measures against such attacks and the Pakistani government has also beefed up security for our offices," Redden said, declining to give any more details.

    He added that the UN group was not planning to withdraw its foreign workers in the wake of the warning.

    The UNHCR closed its offices in Pakistan's Balochistan and North West Frontier provinces and suspended repatriation of Afghan refugees in Nov. 2003 after a UN aid worker was killed in Afghanistan.

    It resumed the repatriation work in March only after the Pakistani and Afghan governments promised to take effective measures for the refugee workers' safety.

    Local reports said the authorities have received information suggesting that terrorists were planning to carry out suicide attacks on offices of six non-governmental organizations including the UNHCR based in Quetta.

    The Balochistan provincial government thus tightened security arrangements and heavy contingent of police and other law-enforcement agencies were deployed at offices of all foreign organizations including the UNHCR. Enditem