KABUL – Pakistani diplomat staffer Nayyar Iqbal working at the Jalalabad consulate has been killed by unknown gunmen in Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s foreign secretary has summoned Afghan charge d’affaires to the Foreign Office and lodged a strong protest with him over the killing, Faisal said.
The Afghan charge d’affaires was also handed a protest note, he added.
The incident comes a few months after two Pakistani diplomats working at the same consulate in Jalalabad were kidnapped and later freed.
Earlier in January 2016, Daesh claimed a suicide attack on the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad, with a gunbattle which lasted several hours.
Afghan officials had said all three attackers and at least seven members of the security forces died during the attack
The attack came amid efforts to restart the stalled peace process with the Taliban, resembled. Source reveal that ISIS which is supported by Afghan intelligence NDS and Indian Intelligence RAW along Pakistan border to reduce the impact of Taliban and destabilise Pakistan from the west is behind the shooting of the Pakistani diplomat.