Islamabad, Aug 22 - The banned Pakistani Taliban, against whom the security forces are engaged in a major offensive in the country's restive northwest, had planned to target Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and other dignitaries, an intelligence report said Saturday.

Among the others on the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) radar were Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, as also sensitive buildings.

According to a private TV channel, intelligence sources had informed the law enforcement agencies that the TTP had started reorganizing despite the ongoing military operations in the Malakand division of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the North and South Waziristan areas of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

The TTP's top commander, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan earlier this month.

The intelligence sources said 50 suicide bombers had been sent to Punjab and the NWFP to avenge the Rah-e-Rast military operations through suicide bombings to put pressure on the government to release the militants arrested by the security forces.