ISLAMABAD, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan directed the capital district administration to increase security for foreign diplomats, especially those from Afghanistan as well as United Nation officials, according to a local newspaper Daily Times report on Tuesday.

    The interior ministry issued the directive in the aftermath of escalating riots in Kabul, following reports of a United States army truck ramming into parked vehicles.

    Concerned over a possible backlash from the riots as well as from a recent U.S. bombing of al-Qaida hideouts in Kandahar that has so far left 50 dead, the Interior Ministry ordered the district administration and police to ensure adequate security for diplomats and other foreign dignitaries residing in the federal capital.

    Sources said that an emergency meeting of the relevant authorities had been convened at the Interior Ministry building to discuss security arrangements against the backdrop of violence in Afghanistan.

    The district administration was asked to stay alert and keep an eye on miscreants, who could take refuge in the Afghan slumspresent in both Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

    They said that the administration was also asked to visits eminaries, particularly those in rural areas, to check whether anyone other than registered students was hiding there. The Interior Ministry also directed the district administration to contact foreign diplomats and provide them with foolproof security if and when they wished to move in or outside the city, sources said. Enditem