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US condemns shooting at Pakistan’s embassy in Afghanistan

By MUNIR AHMED
Associated Press

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United States has condemned the attack on the Pakistani embassy in Afghanistan’s capital in which a senior Pakistani diplomat escaped unhurt but one of his Pakistani guards was wounded. The condemnation came Saturday, a day after hots were fired at the embassy from a nearby building. Pakistan called it an attempt to assassinate its head of mission, Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani. The attack came at a time of rising tensions between the South Asian neighbors over Islamabad’s claims that anti-Pakistan government forces are organizing terrorist attacks from safe havens in Afghanistan.  Officials said Pakistan repatriated the wounded guard by helicopter and he was being treated at a hospital.

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