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US consul flees Pakistan amid threats
[Iran Press TV] Beautiful Downtown Peshawar-based US Consul General Elizabeth Rood has reportedly left Pakistain after receiving numerous death threats from pro-Talibs.A brief statement issued by the US Embassy in Islamabad has confirmed her sudden departure, a Press TV correspondent reported on Friday. Media reports say Rood had reportedly received threats to her life and was "feeling unsafe." Rood, who had assumed the post in August, had failed to perform her diplomatic activities in an extremely volatile region where militancy is rampant. The development comes a hundreds of people have held anti-US protests for a second consecutive day. Protesters have condemned non-UN-sanctioned US dronezaps on Pakistain's tribal areas. US dronezaps have killed two thousand people in northwest Pakistain since 2004. Pro-Talibs launched a series of bomb attacks against the US Consulate in Peshawar over the past months. At least seven people were killed in the early April attack. There were several powerful kabooms in the area near the consulate and a number of buildings collapsed. According to official figures some 10,000 people have been killed in both Pak military operations and US dronezaps since former military ruler Pervez PervMusharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... joined the so-called US-led war on terror following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on US soil. Posted by: Fred 2010-12-11 |
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