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| Afghan diplomat shot dead inside Karachi consulate | Afghan diplomat shot dead inside Karachi consulate |
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| An Afghan diplomat has been shot dead by a security guard at the country's consulate in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi. | An Afghan diplomat has been shot dead by a security guard at the country's consulate in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi. |
| Third secretary Mohammad Zaki died of his injuries shortly after the attack, a spokesman for the consulate said. | |
| The private security officer, who is an Afghan, is in custody. Police say he was the diplomat's personal bodyguard. | |
| Officials say he opened fire following a dispute between the two men. What prompted the argument remains unclear. | |
| "We were working at our office when we heard gunshots," consulate spokesman Haris Khan said, Associated Press reports. "Everybody was running in panic when I got out." | |
| Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan Omar Zakhilwal confirmed the shooting. | |
| "It seems to be a personal dispute related criminal act," he wrote on his official Facebook account. | |
| Police and paramilitary forces were deployed to the Clifton district area around the consulate after the shooting broke out. | |
| Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and commercial capital, has a history of political, sectarian and militant violence - and there have been a number of attacks on foreign missions based there. |