Islamabad, Pakistan ? After the worst attack against foreign nationals in Pakistan’s history, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf Saturday established an anti-terrorist task force to root out criminals operating here, the state-run news agency reported.

More than 400 Islamic militants have been arrested since this week’s brutal suicide bombing in southern Karachi killed 11 French nationals, two Pakistanis and the suicide bomber, whose identity has not yet been established.

Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida and militant Pakistani Islamists linked to the terrorist network are the leading suspects in the bombing that ripped apart a Pakistan navy bus carrying the French engineers to port facilities on the Arabian Sea.

The victims were building a second Agosta submarine, which Pakistan had purchased from France.

A memorial service was held in the violent port city for the 11 French victims.

Pictures of the slain French engineers were placed upon each of the green coffins outside the hospital. Their colleagues passed each coffin, some weeping, all saying a prayer for their slain comrades.

Wreaths were placed on each of the coffins before they were put in ambulances and taken to the airport to be transported home to Paris later Saturday.

Twenty-three wounded French citizens were taken home on a specially equipped medical-evacuation plane Friday. And additional 11 Pakistanis were wounded.

“We cannot afford any laxity,” the state-run news agency Associated Press of Pakistan quoted Musharraf as saying.

He announced a Forensic Science Agency will be established at the cost of 1.2 billion rupees (dlrs 20 million). Pakistan’s forensic facilities are meager. There is only one center to service the entire country. The equipment is antiquated and the staff poorly trained.

According to the APP, Musharraf said, “We want to curb the menace of terrorism. The staff would be given training in modern skills to track down the culprits involved in such heinous crimes.”

International investigation agencies from France and the United States are assisting Pakistan in its probe into the suicide bombing.

The government has already offered a 2 million rupee (dlrs 33,000) reward for the arrest of three men believed to have purchased the vehicle used in the bombing. Sketches of the three men are being circulated. Pakistani police also are receiving assistance from American FBI agents.