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India-Pakistan
Gunmen Slay Saudi Diplomat in Karachi
2011-05-17
[An Nahar] A Saudi diplomat was killed in a drive-by shooting near the consulate in Bloody Karachi on Monday, the second attack on Saudi interests in Pakistain's biggest city in less than a week, officials said.

The motive of the attack was not immediately clear, but authorities said they were investigating whether it was connected to the death of Saudi-born the late Osama bin Laden,
... who is no more...
who was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistain on May 2.

An official from the media section of the Saudi embassy identified the man as a Saudi diplomat. Bloody Karachi police named him as Hassan al-Khatani.

Pak police told Agence La Belle France Presse that the Saudi had been driving a vehicle with diplomatic plates when two cycle of violence riders unleashed a hail of gunfire at a crossroads in the city's upmarket Defence neighborhood.

"The consulate employee died of multiple bullet wounds on the spot," said Fayaaz Leghari, the police chief of southern province Sindh, of which Bloody Karachi is the capital.

"The attackers decamped on the cycle of violence," he added.

"At this moment, we can't say who killed him," Leghari said.

Provincial home ministry official Sharfuddin Memon identified the dead man as a junior officer at the consulate.

"We are investigating if it was linked to the Abbottabad operation or was an isolated incident," he said.

From its side, Soddy Arabia condemned the attack as "criminal."

"The kingdom strongly condemns the criminal attack that targeted one of its members, Hasan al-Khatani, who was treacherously assassinated while on his way to work," said a foreign ministry official, quoted by SPA state news agency.

Soddy Arabia had asked the Pak authorities "to tighten their security measures around the consulate in Bloody Karachi and the Islamabad embassy, and on their staff," said the unnamed official.

"The foreign ministry is continuing its investigations in coordination with Pak authorities," SPA reported.
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