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US Aid Worker Killed In Pakistan

by Gh0s7 | November 12, 2008 at 12:23 am

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CNN is reporting that a United States citizen, along with his Pakistani employee, were killed in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan. The article goes on to say that the man and his driver were shot and killed in the University Town area of Peshawar. According to witnesses, gunmen opened fire on the man's vehicle while he was on his way to his office.

The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad confirmed that a U.S. citizen and his Pakistani employee were killed. The deaths are under investigation, and the Embassy is coordinating with local authorities, said Gonzalo Gallegos, an Embassy spokesman.

"I can confirm that an American citizen and his Pakistani driver were killed in the attack," Wes Robertson, a spokesman for the US embassy, told AFP.

The article from CNN says that the United States government prohibits its employees from staying in or frequenting major hotels in Peshawar, along with Islamabad, Karachi, and Lahore. The man worked as a local aid worker and as part of the local media. The Associated Press says that the man and his driver worked for a United States development program in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. The attack took place in the same area as where gunman opened fire on a senior United States diplomat at the United States consulate. The senior diplomat was able to escape the attack unharmed.

US embassy officials in Islamabad are yet to confirm the identity of the man who worked for USAid in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).

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Amitjha

at 01:30 on November 12th, 2008

This is really very troublesome, even Aid workers are not barred, what happened to these Fudamentalist foeces, they have forgotten the most fundamental lesson of Islam.