Pakistan’s Chief of Mission Returns to Kabul After Long-Time Absence
Diplomatic sources told Afghanistan International that Obaid ur Rehman Nizamani, the Charge d'Affaires of the Pakistani embassy, returned to Kabul on Monday. Nizamani had left Afghanistan after the Pakistan embassy in Kabul had been attacked in December 2022.
The Pakistani embassy in Kabul has not yet officially confirmed Nizamani’s return to Kabul.
On December 2, 2022, the Pakistani embassy in Kabul came under attack by armed men who shot at the embassy from a nearby location.
Shehbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan at that time, announced that the attack was an assassination attempt on the life of the head of the country's embassy in Kabul and said that he wanted "immediate investigations and the arrest of the perpetrators of the attack”.
Nizamani had left Kabul due to security concerns of Islamabad for its top diplomat in Afghanistan.
