Guard hurt in attack on Pak's Kabul embassy
The Morning Standard|December 03, 2022
A security guard was wounded on Friday by shots fired at Pakistan's embassy in the Afghan capital, in what Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called "an assassination attempt" on the head of the mission.
Guard hurt in attack on Pak's Kabul embassy

"I demand immediate investigation & action against perpetrators of this heinous act," Sharif tweeted.

A Kabul police spokesman said one suspect had been arrested and two light weapons seized after security forces swept a nearby building "and prevented the continuation of gunfire". Although Pakistan does not officially recognise Afghanistan's Taliban government, it kept its embassy open even as the hardline Islamists took over, and maintains a full diplomatic mission.

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