The June 14 suicide carbomb attack outside the downtown consulate building in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, killed 12 Pakistanis, including the bomber.
The consulate has been operating from a secret location since August, after several closures of its normal office.
Rocca discussed various options, including closing the road in front of the vacated consulate office and building a tunnel underneath for routine traffic, a provincial government official told AFP, who asked not to be named.
US authorities had offered to bear all costs for the project, the official said.
Karachi, the capital of Sindh, has been hit by a series of attacks on Western and Christian targets. It has also been used as a hideout by Al Qaeda fugitives as well as Pakistani militants.
Rocca was escorted under tight security to the office of Sindh chief secretary K. B. Rind, where Sindh home secretary Brigadier Mukhtar Ahmed and provincial police chief Syed Kamal Shah joined talks.
“We informed her that despite badly lacking sophisticated methods and tools of investigation, we have succeeded in solving many high-profile cases,” Shah told reporters later.
“We apprised her of our handicaps and difficulties in forensic and investigation fields, and she appreciated our efforts against terrorism in Pakistan.”
An earlier suicide carbomb blast in front of Sheraton Hotel killed 11 French naval engineers and three Pakistanis, including the bomber. US reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in January and later murdered by extremists.
Police rounded up two dozen suspected Harkatul Mujahideen Al Almi members in Karachi this month on suspicion of involvement in the suicide blasts, and arrested several Al Qaeda suspects, including Ramzi bin Al Shibh, an accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks in the United States.
Rocca arrived in the teeming commercial hub, home to 14 million people, on Sunday. She was due to head to Islamabad for talks with federal government officials later on Monday “on bilateral issues,” Foreign Minister Inamul Haq told reporters in the capital.
“The chief secretary briefed her on steps taken by the authorities to improve the law and order situation,” a Sindh government spokesman said.
“She was satisfied with the government’s steps and also pleased to see Sindh’s economic uplift.” — AFP
Our Staff Reporter adds: A US delegation, headed by Christina Rocca, visited the Karachi Port on Sunday. US Ambassador Nancy J. Powell, and John Baueman, US Counsel-General at Karachi, also accompanied the delegation.
The delegation showed keen interest in the working of the two container terminals run by the private sector. The successful running of the two terminals and upcoming projects, being built on BOT basis, were viewed as expression of confidence from international investors in the potential of the port sector and policies of the country.
The delegation was briefed on the development projects and the facilities provided at the Port. The US team praised the efforts being made to enhance the capacity of the port.
Christina Rocca visited the office of the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee in the morning and stayed there for an hour. CPLC chief Jamil Yousuf briefed her on the working of the organization.
She was accompanied by the US ambassador and Consul-General in Karachi John Baueman.
Ms Rocca praised the CPLC for the help it was providing to the law- enforcement agencies in combating terrorism and promised US support to the CPLC.