New Delhi: Sudden deterioration in the internal security situation in Pakistan has forced Pakistan's Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah to cut short his stay in India and fly back home.
Shah, who led an 11-member delegation for the two-day Home Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan, has been in constant touch with the authorities in Islamabad and was expected to rush back to Pakistan.
The two-day talks were slated to end tomorrow. Sources in the Pakistani delegation said the two sides were working on a joint statement.
Tension gripped Islamabad following clashes between Pakistani security forces and militant students of Lal Masjid that left a paramilitary trooper and a civilian dead and several others injured.
The gun battles between the security forces and militant madrassa students erupted in the heart of Islamabad on Tuesday after several radical madrassa students tried to barge into a building housing security personnel, who were part of the 1500-strong contingent of Rangers and police commandos deployed outside the Lal Masjid since Friday, a government spokesman said.
The mosque, which houses hundreds of students, has been locked in a stand-off with the government for the last six months over the clerics' campaign to impose strict Islamic law in the capital.
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