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ReutersBERLIN (Reuters) - Germany expressed concern on Friday at the advance of Taliban fighters towards Pakistan's capital and urged the government in Islamabad to take decisive action to ensure the security situation did not deteriorate.
Taliban militants have pushed closer to the capital in recent days, vowing to impose their strict version of Islam across the nuclear-armed Muslim state.
Earlier this month, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari signed a regulation imposing Islamic law in the northwestern Swat valley as part of a deal to end Taliban violence.
"We are following developments in Pakistan very closely and believe like our partners, that the advance of the Taliban ... is worrying," Foreign Ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke told reporters.
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