(KUNA) -- Immediately after a failed suicide attack on the US embassy in the Syrian capital, Pakistan Tuesday beefed up security around US and other western missions as well as western interests in the country, said officials.Here in the capital and in the southern port city of Karachi police patrolling was increased and heavy police and Rangers deployment circled the diplomatic enclave following the Damascus bombings, security officials told KUNA. They said security had also been strengthened around the foreign fast food chains, and other buildings. "Security has been put on high alert as before", said Tariq Yasin, the police chief of Islamabad's diplomatic protection department, told reporters.
Security across the country was already on high alert on the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11. Pakistan is a key US ally in the global war against terrorism.