NATION : Avoid Pakistan, U.S. Suggests
The State Department today urged Americans who don’t have pressing business in Pakistan to leave the country due to “unsettled conditions” resulting from the Persian Gulf crisis.
The department urged Americans planning to visit Pakistan to put off their travel if they can. It said Americans already in the country, including non-essential U.S. government personnel and their families, should leave.
The State Department has issued similar advisories in recent weeks for Americans in Jordan and Sudan, whose governments have tended to side with Iraq since its Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait.
The advisory did not explain how the gulf crisis could affect Americans in Pakistan, which is a member of the U.S.-led coalition confronting Iraq in Saudi Arabia.
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