CALLED ANTI-TERROR WAR TO EVERY AMERICAN VISITOR TO PAKISTAN BY ORDERING MILITARY OPERATIONS IN THE TRIBAL REGION,' HE TOLD DPA. BABAR, WHO IS A MEMBER OF THE PAKISTANI SENATE AND A LEADER OF FORMER PRIME MINISTER BENAZIR BHUTTO'S PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY (PPP), SAID MUSHARRAF ORDERED A MILITARY OPERATION IN EARLY MARCH WHILE US PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH WAS VISITING THE COUNTRY AND AGAIN AS BOUCHER ARRIVED IN THE COUNTRY ON MONDAY. BOTH SOUTH AND NORTH WAZIRISTAN HAVE BEEN PLAGUED BY TERRORIST AND PRO-AL-QAEDA MILITANT ATTACKS ON PAKISTAN'S MILITARY TROOPS AND SECURITY FORCES SINCE THE FALL OF AFGHANISTAN'S FUNDAMENTALIST TALIBAN REGIME IN 2001. COINCIDING WITH THE VISIT OF US PRESIDENT BUSH TO PAKISTAN, THE VIOLENCE IN NORTH WAZIRISTAN INCREASED EARLY THIS MONTH AFTER A MILITARY OPERATION IN A REMOTE VILLAGE THAT KILLED AT LEAST 146 SUSPECTED MILITANTS. --SP 23 32 LOCAL TIME 20 32 GMT
