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By Barry Newhouse
Islamabad
06 June 2008
Pakistani police say they have foiled a planned bomb attack involving three alleged1 suicide bombers2, three vehicles and hundreds of kilograms of explosives. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that despite Monday's bomb attack on the Danish Embassy and Friday's thwarted3 terror plot, officials say they continue to believe that striking peace deals in Pakistan's pro-Taliban tribal4 areas will reduce violence in the country.
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Pakistani police officers check vehicles after a security alert in Islamabad, 6 June 2008 |
Police said they discovered the bomb-rigged vehicles during an early morning raid in Rawalpindi. Pakistani media later reported that Interior Minister Rehman Malik said six people had been arrested in connection with the plot - including three people who planned to be suicide bombers.
The discovery followed claims by an al-Qaida representative in Afghanistan that the terrorist network carried out Monday's suicide bomb attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad.
Pakistani officials have insisted that such bomb attacks, which killed thousands of people across the country in 2007, would decrease once the government struck peace deals with militant5 groups in the autonomous6 tribal regions.
A U.S. newspaper reported Thursday that Pakistani officials told their U.S. counterparts that they have broken off peace talks with the largest Taliban militant group lead by fugitive7 commander Baitullah Mehsud. But Maulvi Omer, a spokesman for Mehsud, told VOA Friday that the talks are continuing.
"We are very satisfied with the outcome of the talks because the government has realized that the policies of President Musharraf were responsible for the problems that the country was facing," he said. "The new government understands that negotiations8 - not force - can resolve these problems."
Pakistan's foreign minister visited Kabul Friday where he tried to reassure9 Afghan officials that the talks would not lead to more violence in Afghanistan - unlike previous peace deals with militants10.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi said he told Afghanistan's foreign minister that the Pakistani government wants greater cooperation with Afghanistan against militant groups.
"I have assured the foreign minister that the government of Pakistan is engaging politically with the saner11 elements," he said. "We are engaging with that element that is peace loving and wants stability in their own regions. We will not engage with terrorists."
Qureshi suggested the two countries work together on securing their shared border, including building fences, registering vehicles and using high-tech12 devices such as biometric identification.
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alleged
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a.被指控的,嫌疑的 | |
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bombers
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n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 );投弹手;安非他明胶囊;大麻叶香烟 | |
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thwarted
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阻挠( thwart的过去式和过去分词 ); 使受挫折; 挫败; 横过 | |
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tribal
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adj.部族的,种族的 | |
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militant
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adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士 | |
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adj.逃亡的,易逝的;n.逃犯,逃亡者 | |
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negotiations
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协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过 | |
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v.使放心,使消除疑虑 | |
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激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 ) | |
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adj.心智健全的( sane的比较级 );神志正常的;明智的;稳健的 | |
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