The UK Foreign Office has now warned British citizens not to travel to Pakistan and for those in North-West Frontier Province, Baluchistan and the Northern Areas to leave immediately.
Pakistan has in the past expressed concerns about the impact of such military offensives in southern Afghanistan on south-west Pakistan as militants seep over the border into the restive Baluchistan province.
A. won by a large margin in the North-West Frontier Province, one of the conservative areas bordering Afghanistan, and succeeded in forming a coalition government in Baluchistan.