Monitoring Desk
Rana Nayyar Iqbal, the official at Pakistan’s Consulate in Afghan city of Jalalabad who was killed on Monday, has been laid to rest in a graveyard in the capital Islamabad, according to media reports.
The funeral prayers were attended among others by Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif and senior officials of Foreign Office.
Earlier Iqbal’s body was shifted to Peshawar via Torkham border. His body was handed over to the political administration of Torkham and officials of Frontier Corps (FC) at the border.
Two assailants riding a motorbike opened fire on Nayyar Iqbal Rana, 52, at a shop in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad.
He was the assistant to the consul general in Jalalabad, the capital of restive Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistan.
The foreign ministry statement said Rana had finished “his three year tenure in Jalalabad and was due to return to Headquarters”.
Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua summoned the Afghan Charge d’’ffaires to the Foreign Office to lodge a strong protest against this heinous act and demanded that the perpetrators of this act of violence should be apprehended and brought to justice. The Foreign Secretary asked for fool proof security for Pakistani diplomats and Missions in Afghanistan.
