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Friends of Pakistan' pledge support to Islamabad

AFP. Abu Dhabi
A group dubbing itself "Friends of Pakistan" pledged support to the extremism-hit country at a meeting in Abu Dhabi yesterday during which a" framework" for cooperation was discussed, a top official said.
"It was a very’ successful meeting, we had (pledges of) unanimous support and solidarity." Pakistan's additional foreign secretary for South Asia. Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry’, told reporters at the end of the meeting.
"People are interested in finding ways to help," he said, adding that the gathering had put together a framework" for cooperation in the fields of development. security, energy and institution building.
The meeting of representatives from China. European states, Saudi .Arabia. Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, came two days after Islamabad said it had secured an IMF
loan of nearly eight billion dollars.
A Pakistani diplomat told AFP that countries represented at the gathering had not come to pledge donations.
"This is not a donors' club meeting, said Javed Malik. Pakistan's ambassador at large. "This is for galvanising broader support to Pakistan."
Economic support was just one of the issues discussed, in addition to building institutions, supporting Pakistan's democratic government and battling extremism.
"Pakistan played a very important role in fighting terror... that needs to be supported." Malik said.
On Saturday Pakistan announced it will receive a loan of 7.6 billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund.
Islamabad needs approximately 4.5 billion dollars (3.5 billion euros) to deal with a balance of payments crisis that has raised the risk of the violence-hit nation defaulting on its foreign debts.
"The impact of the financial crisis in
the world and the difficulties we faced at home impacted gravely, particularly on our foreign exchange reserves which were 16.4 billion dollars in October 2007 and now are less than 7 billion dollars, Shaukat Tarin, top financial adviser to the Pakistani premier, said on Saturday.
General Pervez Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan before a civilian government took over in March, turned the country into a close US ally in the "war on terror."
Pakistan's tribal belt became a safe haven for hundreds of extremists who fled neighbouring Afghanistan after the US-led toppling of the hardline Taliban regime in Kabul in late 2001.
The Pakistani military is currently fighting Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants in the Bajaur tribal district, where officials say more than'l,500 rebels have been killed and hundreds more captured since August.