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To: Dealer who wrote (42480)	9/23/2001 11:13:49 PM
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09/23 21:02 Pakistan Says Government Will Crack Down on Violent Protests By Haris Zamir Islamabad, Pakistan, Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan said it will crack down on violent protests over the government's support for any military action against terrorism that the U.S. takes in Afghanistan, Agence France-Presse said. ``We will no longer tolerate disruptive processions, threats to law and order or arson,'' AFP cited Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider as saying. ``The government will take stern action against groups or parties who try to violate government restrictions on outdoor activities.'' Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf yesterday met provincial governors and top security officials. At least four people were killed Friday in Karachi, the country's biggest city and its financial center, as protesters clashed with police. Demonstrations also took place in Peshawar, Quetta, Islamabad, Lahore and Rawalpindi. Pakistan, the world's second-largest Muslim country with a population of 145 million people, was one of only three countries to recognize the rule of Afghanistan's Taliban militia after it took control of the capital, Kabul, in 1996. The United Arab Emirates severed relations with the Taliban at the weekend leaving Saudi Arabia as the only other country recognizing the Taliban. Pakistan said at the weekend it scaled down its diplomatic relationship with Afghanistan, stopped issuing visas and pulled out most of its senior staff from Kabul. ``Following United Nations resolutions, the Pakistan government asked the Taliban embassy to scale down their presence, which they did,'' Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Riaz Muhammad Khan told a news conference Saturday. The visa section has also been closed ``temporarily,'' he said. `Skeleton Staff' ``We are maintaining a skeleton staff in Kabul,'' Khan said. ``In Islamabad, the Taliban representatives can listen to what the rest of the world is expecting from them,'' he said. Pakistan has always maintained an embassy in Kabul, even during the days of Soviet military intervention in the 1980s, Khan said. ``Afghanistan is a landlocked country and depends for transit trade and food supply on Pakistan,'' he said. Pakistan has closed its borders and all established routes with Afghanistan. ``Still, a very large number of people leaving Kabul, Jalalabad and many other areas are heading towards Pakistan,'' Khan said. Thousands of Afghans are camping close to the 2,500-kilometer (1,554-mile) border the countries share.