ISLAMABAD – Foreign Office on Sunday summoned US envoy to Pakistan DavidHale to record protest over the killing of a youth in a hit-and-run by adiplomat stationed in Islamabad.
Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua summoned the top US envoy where heexpressed grief over the loss of life and assured full cooperation in theinvestigation in the road accident.
On Saturday, US defence and air attaché Colonel Joseph Emanuel Hall, whowas driving a white Land Cruiser jumped the lights and hit a motorcyclecarrying two men at a traffic signal.
A man, identified as 22-year-old Ateeq, died on the support, while hiscousin Raheel Ahmad suffered injuries.
As the police reached the sport, the US diplomat asked them to clear theway as he had diplomatic immunity. The official showed resistance whenpolice refused to leave him.
The US official and vehicle, later, were taken to the Kohsar police stationwhere Hall was asked to submit written statements about the incident.
Later, the driver was allowed to leave, while his vehicle was impounded forinvestigation.
Seven years back, CIA contractor Raymond Allen Davis sparked a diplomaticstorm in Pakistan after shooting dead two young men – Faizan and Faheem –in ‘self-defence’ at Lahore’s Qurtaba Chowk.
A car coming to rescue Davis killed a third man, Ibadur Rahman, in ahit-and-run while speeding on the wrong side of the road on January 27,2011.
On March 16, the same year, Davis was released after the families of thetwo killed men were paid $2.4 million as blood money. Judges then acquittedhim on all charges and Davis immediately returned to the United States.