Washington condemns shooting at Pakistan embassy in Kabul

3/12/2022 18:16

        The United States has condemned Friday's attack on the Pakistani embassy in Afghanistan's capital in which a senior Pakistani diplomat escaped unhurt but one of his Pakistani guards was wounded.
        
        The attack comes amid rising tensions between the South Asian neighbors over Islamabad's claims that anti-Pakistan government forces are organizing terrorist attacks from hideouts in Afghanistan.
        
        Shots were fired at the embassy from a nearby building by an as-yet known assailant or assailants. Shortly after the shooting, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif took to Twitter, calling the attack an "assassination attempt" against Pakistan's head of mission in Afghanistan, Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani. Pakistan repatriated the wounded guard by helicopter and he was being treated at a hospital on Saturday.