Nayar Iqbal Rana. PHOTO: Facebook
PESHAWAR: A Pakistani diplomat was shot passed by gunmen nearby his chateau in eastern Afghanistan on Monday evening.
Rana Nayyar Iqbal, an worker during a Pakistan Consulate General in a Jalalabad city of Nangarhar province, was gunned down by unclear group nearby his residence during 6pm, a confidence central told The Express Tribune.
Iqbal, father of five, was returning home after charity Asar prayers during a mosque when he was targeted. He was shot 5 times in a conduct and chest. He was a proprietor of Sialkot.
According to a Hindustan Times, Attaullah Khogyani, a orator for Nangarhar governor, said Rana was shot by dual gunmen on a motorcycle in Jalalabad, a province’s capital.
The plant was operative in a consulate’s visa territory and went selling but a confidence detail, he claimed.
Two Pakistani diplomats go blank in Afghanistan
Foreign Office orator Dr Mohammad Fasial pronounced the foreign secretary had summoned a Afghan assign d’affaires to criticism opposite a “gruesome murder” of a Pakistani official.
Pakistan condemns a murdering of a tactful staff in Jalalabad, Afghanistan and final increasing security
— Dr Mohammad Faisal (@ForeignOfficePk) November 6, 2017
Afghan assign d’affaires summoned by a unfamiliar secretary to criticism a hideous murder of Pakistani tactful central in Jalalabad.
— Dr Mohammad Faisal (@ForeignOfficePk) November 6, 2017
In Jul this year, two officials of the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad went blank while returning to their home nation by road. They were after rescued.
Jalalabad, a provincial collateral of Nangarhar, is a bustling trade heart about 70 kilometres from a categorical limit channel with Pakistan, from that landlocked Afghanistan imports most of a goods.
Last month, gunmen abducted Muhammad Nabi Ahmadi, a emissary administrator of Afghanistan’s Kunar province, in a Dabgari area of Peshawar – a day after he arrived in a city for an appointment with a doctor.
Afghan Consul General in Peshawar Moeen Mrastyal pronounced Ahmadi had come to Peshawar where he had an appointment with a alloy in Dabgari. “There, he was abducted by unclear gunmen and we still haven’t listened anything about him,” he added.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1551452/1-pakistani-consulate-official-shot-dead-afghanistan/