U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher (C) talks with Rehman Malik (R), the head of Pakistan's Interior Ministry, and U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson in Islamabad October 20, 2008. Boucher, the top U.S. diplomat for South Asia, is in Pakistan for a series of meetings with Pakistan's leaders, with the U.S. ally facing a looming balance of payments crisis as well as rising Islamist militancy. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKISTAN)