Pakistan urges Taliban govt. to beef up security at Kabul embassy

The demand comes just one day after an attack on Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul, which targeted the country’s Chargé d’Affaires (CdA) to Afghanistan, Ubaidur Rehman Nizamani. Nizamani was unharmed, but his bodyguard was critically injured.

In a series of tweets, Sadiq said: “Our top most priority is the security of members of our mission. First and foremost, the Afghan interim government will need to beef up the security of our embassy and its personnel.”

He assured that the “government of Pakistan will also provide necessary resources to further enhance security of our diplomats to ensure continued and effective discharge of duties by them in the most important foreign Capital for Pakistan”.

While Nizamani was unharmed, security guard Sepoy Israr Mohammad was “critically injured” while protecting the mission’s leader.

Sadiq said that the sepoy “who took bullets on chest” was “evacuated to Combined Military Hospital in Peshawar last night by a special plane”.

He saluted the “extraordinary courage and devotion to duty” of the guard and wished him a speedy recovery. He praised the guard’s “extraordinary courage and devotion to duty” and wished him a speedy recovery.

According to an embassy official, a lone attacker “came behind the cover of houses and started firing.”

One suspect was arrested, according to Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran, after security forces rushed to the embassy and stopped the ongoing shooting.

He stated that the details of the clearance operation would be shared later, and that weapons had been recovered. The attack was condemned by the Afghan foreign ministry and several Pakistani officials.

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