Weeks after Pakistan’s head of mission in Kabul came under a sniper attack,a request from Islamabad to enhance deployments was rejected.
Ubaidur Rehman Nizamani, the head of Pakistan’s diplomatic mission inKabul, had come under sniper attack from the Islamic State.
However, the shooters missed their target, allowing Nizamani’s bodyguard,an elite commando from the Pakistan army’s Special Service Group (SSG), hadused his body to keep the diplomat safe by taking multiple bullets from theattackers.0 seconds of 0 seconds
Subsequently, Islamabad asked Kabul to enhance the security of Pakistanimissions in Afghanistan.
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari mentioned this in his newsconference in New York the other day, where he emphasized that Afghanistanneeds to fulfil certain security assurances.
Pakistan had requested Afghanistan to let it enhance the number of securitypersonnel it deploys in Afghanistan to protect its mission in the wake ofthe attack.
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But the request has been rejected twice now.
Pakistan currently deploys 15 troops in Afghanistan, including 11 at thesprawling embassy in Kabul and two each in Jalalabad and Mazar-e-Sharif.
Islamabad wanted to deploy an additional 21 troops to maintain the securityof their compound and personnel.
