Powell meets FM Sattar & Pres Musharraf prior to presser.

Описание: (16 Oct 2001)

1. Wide of U-S Secretary of State Colin Powell's motorcade entering compound.
2. Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar waiting.
3. Powell getting out of car, greeted by Sattar.
4. Powell and Sattar entering building.
5. Wide of meeting
6. Pull out from Powell
7. Pull out from Sattar
8. Pan from Powell to wide of meeting
9. Powell entering Presidential residence.
10. Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf greeting Powell.
11. U-S delegation seated.
12. Powell and Musharraf sitting down.
13. Various of Powell and Musharraf seated.
14. Pan from U-S delegation to Powell and Musharraf.

CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: See separate edit for Powell/Musharraf news conference.

STORYLINE:

U-S Secretary of State Colin Powell met Pakistan's President and Foreign Minister on Tuesday in an effort to shore up support for the coalition against terrorism.

Powell's day began with talks with the foreign minister, Abdul Sattar, and other top officials.

He later met Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf.

Powell said Afghanistan's Taliban regime was "under enormous pressure" but refused to say whether he thought it near collapse.

Musharraf later told an Islamabad news conference the coalition strikes should be "short and targeted."

The U-S Secretary of State was also trying to calm tensions between Pakistan and India after new fighting in the disputed province of Kashmir.

The heaviest bombardment this year began on the eve of Powell's visit, but Indian and Pakistani guns fell silent early on Tuesday.

The U-S had been trying to head off just such a flare in hostilities between the longtime rivals, fearing it could erode Pakistan's support for the campaign in Afghanistan.

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