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The US State Department on Tuesday renewed its travel advisory on Pakistan and the US Embassy shut down its heavily guarded American Centre in Islamabad's high-security zone fearing attacks from Islamic militants.
The US closed down its consulate in Karachi last week.
"The American Centre in Islamabad has been closed for security reasons until further notice," Linda Cheatham, the acting public affairs officer at US embassy, was quoted as saying by the local daily Dawn.
"The staff will, however, keep working," she said without specifying from where they would work.
American centres in Lahore and Peshawar would continue to function, she said.
Asked whether there were any plans to close down the embassy, Cheatham said: "Not that I know of."
The State Department in its travel warning cited attacks on Christian facilities and likely anti-US backlash for sentencing of four men for the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl as reasons for its nationals to keep away from the country.
PTI
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