41.   Meanwhile in Pakistan the Taliban were dealt another blow when the Pakistani government closed their embassy in Islamabad.

42.   Mahmood was later placed under house arrest by the Pakistani government, although he has not been charged with any crime.

43.   Musharraf told Zhu that Pakistan hoped for peace and opposed war and that the Pakistani government was willing to ease the tension through dialogue, Xinhua reported.

44.   Next the Pakistani government banned press conferences and public statements by the Taliban ambassador, the last voice of the fundmamentalist government outside Afghanistan.

45.   Not true, said Grant Aldonas, under secretary of commerce for international trade, who negotiated with the Pakistani government.

46.   Pakistani government spokesmen have denied that bin Laden entered their territory and maintained that all reasonable exits have been blocked.

47.   Preparing for war on its borders, the Pakistani government announced it had withdrawn a dozen diplomats from the Afghan capital.

48.   Reacting to the increasingly warlike statements from India, the Pakistani government on Thursday made its own preparations for a possible war.

49.   Reacting to the increasingly war-like statements from India, the Pakistani government made its own preparations for war on Thursday.

50.   Rather, he appeared to hold out the possibility of a March stopover by Clinton if the Pakistani government decided to take some steps against terrorism.