Islamabad is on high alert as the U.S. Embassy in the city warned its staff of a possible attack on Americans at a top hotel. As per an advisory, American personnel have been banned from visiting the popular hotel over the holidays and the Embassy has also urged them to refrain from non-essential travel.
The U.S.government is aware of information that "unknown individuals are possibly plotting to attack Americans at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad sometime during the holidays," the embassy said in a security alert.
The directive comes only two days after a
suicide bombing in a residential area of the
capital killed a police officer and wounded
ten others. The explosion happened when
police stopped a taxi for inspection during
a patrol. According to the police, a rear seat
passenger detonated explosives he was
carrying, blowing up the vehicle.
Militants with the Pakistani Taliban, who
are separate from but allied with
Afghanistan's rulers, later claimed the
attack.
Islamabad's administration has since put
the city on high alert, banning public
gatherings and processions, even as
campaigns are ongoing for upcoming local
elections. Police have stepped up patrols
and established snap checkpoints to
inspect vehicles across the city
A suicide bombing targeted the capital's
Marriott Hotel in September 2008, in one of
the deadliest such incidents in the capital
Attackers drove a dump truck up to the
hotel's gates before detonating it, killing 63
people and wounding over 250 others.
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