Pakistan Relocated Olympic Torch Run

Islamabad will contribute to the high security zone: A massive police should protect the Pakistani capital, on Wednesday when the Olympic torch arrives in Pakistan - for fear of terrorist attacks was the route of the run already significantly changed.
Islamabad - An Olympic torch run through the center of Islamabad - the National Olympic Committee of Pakistan had great plans, but it is now nothing: Fearing terrorist attacks of Islamic extremists, the Pakistani authorities of the route for Wednesday in Islamabad planned Olympic torch run relocated. The National Olympic Committee announced, will not run as planned in the city, but in a sports centre closed. A massive security deployment will protect the event. In Pakistan, came in the last few months hundreds of people in attacks near Taliban extremists killed.
protests against China's Tibet and human rights policy as in London or Paris are in Islamabad, however, not expected. "Tibet is an inalienable part of China," quoted the state news agency APP President Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan condemn all, the Tibetan "separatists" supported. Unlike in the neighboring country India, where the Olympic torch on Thursday station will make living in Pakistan hardly exile Tibetans. Moreover entertain Islamabad and Beijing for decades a close bilateral relations. Thus, China should be the main arms supplier of the Pakistani military. Without incident, the Olympic flame at this Monday through the Sultanate of Oman were taken. The organisers of the torch run, chose a 20-kilometer course, from a few dozen athletes in the afternoon in the coastal city of Muscat has been completed. After the stopover in the Middle East, the Olympic flame on the Asian continent back.
Oman Sports Minister Ali bin Ali bin Masood el Sunaidi, the Olympic flame in Muscat in the morning reception. In Muscat, where demonstrations are rare anyway, there were no significant disruptions by anti-Chinese protests to be expected. The runners were cheered by 300 scouts. Oman maintains good relations with China. The small country on the Arabian Peninsula supplied China with oil, Chinese companies are again in building projects in the Gulf state. The torch run was in London and Paris in early April by massive protests against China's Tibet policy accompanied the subsequent run in San Francisco was then significantly reduced. The following stations in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam remained the run but without significant interference.
After the recent incidents at the International Olympic torch run for Beijing think the Summer Games in 2012 in London on a purely national race for the flame. But had not yet decided whether the fire only on the British island of his round. "We should take no decision before the dust of Beijing has," said Olympic Minister Tessa Jowell. The problem is "in the next four years" carefully discussed. hen / dpa / AFP

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