The United States will seek to redouble efforts with ally Pakistan to fight extremism in south Asia, a State Department official said Monday after an Islamabad hotel attack killed at least 60 people. "If you look at what happened on Saturday, this is an example of why we, the Pakistanis, the Afghans, need to work and redouble our efforts to counter extremism in this region," State Department spokesman Robert Wood said.
"We'll continue to work with the Pakistanis on trying to deal with the Taliban and al Qaeda threat, not only in the tribal areas, but over in Afghanistan," he told reporters. A suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with explosives into the security gates of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing at least 60, including two Americans, the Czech ambassador and a Vietnamese woman. More than 260 people were wounded.
In another indication Monday of the scale of unrest gripping nuclear-armed Pakistan, suspected Taliban gunmen abducted an Afghan diplomat and killed his driver in the north-western city of Peshawar, officials said. A contractor for the US State Department was unaccounted for following the hotel bombing, Wood said, but was unable to provide details as to the missing contractor's nationality.
"We'll continue to work with the Pakistanis on trying to deal with the Taliban and al Qaeda threat, not only in the tribal areas, but over in Afghanistan," he told reporters. A suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with explosives into the security gates of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing at least 60, including two Americans, the Czech ambassador and a Vietnamese woman. More than 260 people were wounded.
In another indication Monday of the scale of unrest gripping nuclear-armed Pakistan, suspected Taliban gunmen abducted an Afghan diplomat and killed his driver in the north-western city of Peshawar, officials said. A contractor for the US State Department was unaccounted for following the hotel bombing, Wood said, but was unable to provide details as to the missing contractor's nationality.
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