Pakistan Reassuring Afghanistan Over Taliban Taliban Talks

Pakistan's Foreign Minister was in Kabul trying to assure Afghan concerns that the peace talks that Pakistan is engaged in with the taliban will lead to increased attacks in Afghanistan. Reuters

Meanwhile, Pakistani police said they have foiled a terrorist attack just days after al Qaida tried to blow up the Danish embassy because of the motoon. Seems like the peace talks going well. NY Times

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Four days after a car bomb attack on the Danish Embassy in Islamabad killed at least six people, Pakistani authorities said Friday that they had foiled a new onslaught when police intercepted three vehicles laden with a ton of explosives and arrested three alleged suicide bombers.

The arrests came during a security alert Thursday following the attack Monday when a car bomb detonated outside the Danish Embassy. Responsibility for that attack was claimed Thursday by an Al Qaeda operative in Afghanistan as vengeance for the publication in Danish newspapers of cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad.

Rahman Malik, a senior government adviser, told reporters on Friday that, in two operations late Thursday, six people were arrested — three of them alleged by the police to be potential suicide bombers.

In the second episode, police detained four people in three vehicles — two Toyota Land Cruisers and a Toyota Corolla car. The Land Cruisers were each carrying 500 kilograms of explosives. Two Pakistani television stations reported that the explosives were destined for an attack on the presidential campus in Rawalpindi, the residence of President Pervez Musharraf.