Pak Embassy Kabul

A security guard was wounded Friday by shots fired at Pakistan's embassy in the Afghan capital in what Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called "an assassination attempt" on the head of the mission.

Pakistan's embassy in Kabul said Sunday it was indefinitely closing its consular office in the Afghan capital due to security reasons, amid mounting tensions between the neighbouring countries.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has as hit back at the US administration after Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI has provided safe haven to a terrorist group that attacked the US embassy in Kabul last week.

The US has blamed a guerrilla faction with ties to Pakistan's military intelligence agency ISI for the attack on the US Embassy in Kabul.

A security guard was wounded Friday by shots fired at Pakistan's embassy in the Afghan capital in what Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called "an assassination attempt" on the head of the mission.

Pakistan's embassy in Kabul said Sunday it was indefinitely closing its consular office in the Afghan capital due to security reasons, amid mounting tensions between the neighbouring countries.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has as hit back at the US administration after Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI has provided safe haven to a terrorist group that attacked the US embassy in Kabul last week.

The US has blamed a guerrilla faction with ties to Pakistan's military intelligence agency ISI for the attack on the US Embassy in Kabul.