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Pakistan grapples with slide in security; envoy due
Mon Apr 6, 2009 10:16am EDT
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's prime minister summoned officials on Monday to work out ways to check a slide in security after a weekend of violence which is likely to top the agenda of talks with U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke.
Pakistan is crucial to U.S. efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan and frequent attacks by militants linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban across Pakistan are reviving Western concerns about the stability of its nuclear-armed ally.
Holbrooke, special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, is due in Islamabad after talks in Kabul. He is traveling with Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and they are expected in India on Tuesday.
In the latest violence in Pakistan, 24 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a gathering of minority Shi'ite Muslims on Sunday, a day after eight paramilitary soldiers were killed in a similar attack in the capital, Islamabad.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani called chief ministers and police chiefs of the country's four provinces, and intelligence chiefs for special security talks, an official said.
Surging militant violence has raised fears for nuclear-armed Pakistan's prospects a year after a civilian government came to power ending eight years of military rule.
President Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and the coalition government are also struggling to revive an economy propped up by a $7.6 billion International Monetary Fund loan.
The political party that backed former president Pervez Musharraf called for an all-parties conference, saying existing security systems had collapsed or failed.
Despite such worries, stocks and the rupee both ended firmer. "Such incidents are not a surprise any more," said Shuja Rizvi, director at brokers Capital One Equities, explaining why militant violence no longer spooked stock investors.
PRESSURE ON MILITANTS
U.S. President Barack Obama has made the region a top foreign policy focus and has promised to send 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Last month, he unveiled a strategy to turn the tide of militant violence with a new emphasis on Pakistan.
Analysts said the recent rise in violence across Pakistan could be a response to the new U.S. focus, including the reinforcements and a spate of attacks on militants by U.S. drone aircraft in Pakistan.
"The presence of additional U.S. forces in Afghanistan is certainly to put more pressure on these militant groups and they would in turn escalate their activities," Tasneem Noorani, a former Interior Ministry secretary said.
Mullen said on Sunday the extra troops being sent to Afghanistan would start to turn tide against the insurgency.
The suicide bomb attack on minority Shi'ites on Sunday in the central town of Chakwal was apparently aimed at stoking sectarian tension but that was unlikely to happen, analysts say. Continued...
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