ISLAMABAD – Pakistan stopped a US Military Attache cum diplomat to fly outof the country in a Bagram-bound plane, it has been reported.

Th gesture is a message that no more special flights please. Pakistan andUS bilateral ties have reached a new low primarily due President DonaldTrump tweet.

Refusing the US Military Attache to leave country is yet another example.

The officials have said that the US diplomat, Col Joseph Hall, who isserving as defense attache in the US Embassy in Islamabad, was looking tofly out of the country in a special plane which arrived in Nur Khan AirBase from Bagram airfield in Afghanistan.

The top US diplomat is accused of killing of a Pakistani man in a fatalroad accident last month.

The US Air Force C-130 flew into Islamabad at 11.15am from Bagram airbasein Afghanistan. Col Hall accompanied by around eight people from theembassy reached the air base around five minutes later for boarding theaircraft, sources privy of the development have told Dawn News.

The source further added that the FIA officer on duty after finding outthat it was Col Hall, held back his passport and sought directions from hishigh-ups, according to a source. The permission for Col Hall to leave wasnot granted and the special aircraft returned to Bagram at around 4pm.

The US Embassy in Islamabad has not commented regarding the report so far.