Washington, July 4(ANI): The United States is focusing on stopping the production of ammonium nitrate in Pakistan and hopes that a meeting in Islamabad this week would lead to a ban on the substance, Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman has said.
Ammonium nitrate, a popular fertilizer, is used for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Address Pakistani physicians in a convention in St. Louis, Missouri, Grossman noted that the IEDs had killed thousands of people in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"We hope that the July 5 meeting in Islamabad will deal with this problem once and for all," The Dawn quoted Grossman, as saying.
Robert P. Casey, a member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told more than 2,500 Pakistani physicians attending the convention that they should use their influence to convince Pakistan to make a law banning ammonium nitrate.
Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield will lead the US delegation to this meeting of the Strategic Dialogue Working Group on counter-terrorism and law enforcement. (ANI)
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