Terror tremors: US embassy staff in Pak want to go home

Frank Wentworth, press officer and a father of three, is leaving in June at the end of his normal tour. He spent six weeks of the past eight months with his wife and children.

‘‘This is not a good career-enhancing move,’’ Chamberlin acknowledged in an interview with the Times. But, she said, ‘‘my girls were clear, firm, they wanted me back,’’ she said. She is leaving at the end of this month.

Few embassies have gone through what the US mission in Islamabad has: India-Pakistan escalation on the border; kidnapping and killing of Daniel Pearl; attack on Islamabad church, and recently, the Karachi attack that killed 12 French. All these have scared families of the staff.