Source: Reuters
Britain is withdrawing the children of its diplomats from Pakistan following last month’s suicide bomb attack that killed 55 people at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday. “Following a review of security in the wake of the attack on the Marriott Hotel, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has decided […]
Filed Under: terrorism
Source: The New York Times
By JANE PERLEZ
A week after the bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel here, Pakistan is struggling to deal with a financial meltdown and a terrorism threat that has moved to the nation’s heart and badly shaken confidence in the new government among Pakistanis, diplomats and investors alike.
In New York on Friday, […]
Filed Under: Politics
Source: AP
A U.S. official says two U.S. diplomatic outposts in Pakistan received envelopes containing an unknown white powder last week, sparking a security scare.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Lou Fintor says tests are being conducted on the substance. He declined comment Sunday on whether any embassy staffers had become ill or were under observation.
The envelopes were sent […]
