QUETTA - A vehicle of US Consulate in Karachi was impounded by police in Gwadar for bearing a fake number plate on Wednesday.
Police sources said three persons were travelling in a Land Cruiser from Turbat to Gwadar. As they entered the limits of Gwadar, district police stopped the vehicle at a checkpost for having a fake number plate.
During the search, a number plate of US Consulate in Karachi was recovered from the vehicle. The vehicle and its inmates were taken into custody by the police.
Police authorities said they had contacted US authorities in Karachi for confirmation of the vehicle and the three people travelling in it.
Official sources in Quetta disclosed that the three persons who were travelling in the vehicle were employees of the US Consulate in Karachi.
However, the sources said that they were travelling in Gwadar area without prior information and without any security. They would be released after necessary investigations, they added.
Several incidents in the past few months involving US government cars with fake number plates have also taken place in Lahore and Peshawar according to media reports. What exactly are they upto? No explanation is ever offered by the consulates either, is it a security measure to use fake plates or something else?
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It is not such a big deal, even if it was true, but I noticed that it is The Nation that is whipping the propoganda again. Really that newspaper has anti-everything tilt and is the forefront of creating hysteria against Pakistan’s allies.
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Why would they want to go out on a visit (remote) places if they are so scared? In case they have something to do, they can inform relevant govt. agencies and get the proper escort...
Why would they want to go out an visit (remote) places if they are so scared? In case they have something to do, they can inform relevant govt. agencies and get the proper escort...
How is Gwadar a remote place?
And the US Aid that Pakistan is getting comes with certain strings attached that it be spend on education, infrastructure, job creation.
They have American diplomats monitoring the situation.
And the US Aid that Pakistan is getting comes with certain strings attached that it be spend on education, infrastructure, job creation.
They have American diplomats monitoring the situation.
Last i knew, Gawadar is far from Karachi and Islamabad, i think it is 450+ Km from Karachi and with this, it does proves to be remote location from the US consulate...
Yes the aid have strings attached, but does that allows the US consulate to move around suspicious vehicles with fake number plate on it???
There are certain diplomatic procedures, the diplomat does enjoy special status but that does not allow them to violate law of the land.... or do you reckon that the law of the land should be violated???
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Actually it is law that consular plates be identified as diplomatic. Not Pakistani law. International law. Why do you think all diplomatic plates have CD infront of them?
Secondly US diplomats do not monitor projects. USAIDS does. USAID staff are not diplomatic staff. They have never been and never will be. In Pakistan USAID Is working through IOM, UNHCR and other NGOs like Action Aid to work in FATA And PATA.
Like always M2K you have absolutely no knowledge about the facts. Yet you mouth off anyway.
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Agree with CM here.
some people here certainly on payrol! btw how much you guys making out of this full or part time job?
it wouldnt be big deal if it hasnt happened before, consistently its happening most of the time they are getting away with it, some time security forces do stop and catch them still in vain. all this prove there is some fishy business going on Pakistan by our "allies"
Woa, American terrorists, black hearted Black Water are freely moving about in Balochistan, perhaps training Baloch Nationalists or Pakistani Taliban against the interests of Pakistan.
some people here certainly on payrol! btw how much you guys making out of this full or part time job?
it wouldnt be big deal if it hasnt happened before, consistently its happening most of the time they are getting away with it, some time security forces do stop and catch them still in vain. all this prove there is some fishy business going on Pakistan by our "allies"
Obviously such 'terrorist movements' by our Christian ally have been giving surprise gifts of 'suicide attacks' in market places, masjids, and attacks as in Karachi on the day of Ashura wherein the bomb was put inside the box of Quranic pages. Only a fanatic Non-Muslim (perhaps one of our Christian allies) can do that.
The number plate of the US Consulate vehicle was found to be fake, a senior police officer of Gwadar police said, while confirming the arrest of the three employees.
According to sources, police intercepted a vehicle with a diplomatic number plate at the Gwadar bypass, acting on information that a suspicious vehicle had entered the area. Police brought the vehicle and the three employees to Gwadar police station.
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They should be arrested on the suspecion of terrorism, and tried as such. Pakistani Parliament needs to pass stiffer standards in allowing foreigners into the country, especially those arriving from nations deemed "of interest" or "sponsors of terrorism".
American dollars in Pakistan should not be wagged around as a key to break the law, and tout authority that only belongs to Pakistanis, not foreign mercenaries in the garb of diplomats.
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^ ditto. considering the country's red alert status, there should be more stringent laws regarding these suspicious activities and no one should be above the law. to roam around the country incognito in the country's highly security sensivitve areas is highly suspicious.
Gwadar has been touted as a major port and energy hub for Pakistan. Pakistan-Iran-India gas pipeline will pass through here, China is helping Pakistan build railway lines and Pakistan is continuing to dredge to turn Gwadar into a Naval Base.
American diplomats are complaining of being harassed in Pakistan, fraying relations between the two countries at a critical moment when the Obama administration is demanding more help to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
One of the many police checkpoints in Islamabad. American diplomats say they face unnecessary searches of their vehicles. NYTThe US officials say that parts of the Pakistani military and intelligence services are mounting this campaign and this extends to refusal to extend approved visas for more than hundred American officials and frequent searches of US diplomatic vehicles in major cities, the New York Times reported quoting US officials.
The harassment affects military attache’s, CIA officers, junior level diplomats, development experts and others. And as a result, the Times said, some key American aid programmes to Pakistan are grinding to a halt.
The delays in granting visas extensions are even affecting military programmes as scores of US helicopters being used by the Pakistan Army in its ongoing campaign against the Taliban can no longer be serviced as the specialists have not been given visas.
The paper said reimbursement to Pakistan of nearly USD one billion a year for counter-terrorism has been suspended because the last of the American embassy’s five accountant had to leave the country after their visas expired.
“There’s an incredible disconnect between what they want of us and the fact we can’t get the visas,” a diplomat said.
Pakistani officials acknowledged the situation but said the menacing atmosphere resulted from American arrogance and provocations, like taking photographs in sensitive areas, and a lack of understanding of how divided Pakistanis were about the alliance with the United States.
The campaign comes after months of rising anti-American sentiment here and complaints by the military that the government of President Asif Ali Zardari has grown too dependent on a new USD 7.5 billion, five-year aid plan from Washington.
A Pakistani security official, who has kept a tally of many of the incidents, was not sympathetic, saying the Americans had brought on the problems.
It also appears to be an attempt to blunt the planned expansion of the United States Embassy to 800 Americans from 500 in the next 18 months, growth that American officials say is necessary to channel the expanded American assistance.
“They don’t want more Americans here,” another American diplomat said. “They’re not sure what the Americans are doing. It’s pretty pervasive.”
The harassment has grown so frequent that American officials said they viewed it as a concerted effort by parts of the military and intelligence services that had grown resentful of American demands to step up the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Though the United States has been sending large amounts of military assistance to the Pakistani Army, and helping its premier spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, the campaign shows the ambivalence, even “hatred” toward the United States in those quarters, the American official said.
The Pakistani security official said the Americans were arrogant. “They think of themselves as omnipotent. That’s how they come across.”
The searching of American diplomatic vehicles at the many checkpoints in the cities has become one of the biggest irritants.
But the US says that its diplomats behaving in a high-handed manner are all false.
An American embassy official cited a recent report in some Pakistani newspapers that an US diplomat had been taking photographs in a military area of the city of Lahore.
He said the suspected diplomat, a technical support officer, was not carrying a camera.
In another instance, the Pakistani security official said, Americans in an S.U.V. last week fled after the police tried to search their car at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the capital.
The embassy spokesman denied that Americans had fled the checkpoint. “Nonsense, diplomats don’t run away,” he said.
**Because diplomatic license plates registered to the embassy would provide an easy target for militants, the Americans reached an accord some time ago with Pakistan’s government that their official plates would be carried inside the car, the spokesman said.
But the absence of plates left the American cars vulnerable to searches at checkpoints, he said. Under international conventions diplomatic cars are not subject to searches, and American diplomats were instructed not to permit searches beyond opening the trunk, the spokesman said.**
At least 135 American diplomats have been refused extensions on their visas, the senior American diplomat said, leaving some sections of the embassy operating at 60 percent of capacity.
Much of the heightened suspicions about American diplomats appears to revolve around persistent stories in the Pakistani press about the presence of the American security company Blackwater, now called Xe Services, in Pakistan, the report said.
Thats bullcrap, would it be not easy to rent a vehicle if they really were scared of going out with consulate number plates? Its our certain dumb people who have to undermine everything that comes out against their beloved people.
So which project is American money being used on in Gawadar?
Gwadar has been touted as a major port and energy hub for Pakistan. Pakistan-Iran-India gas pipeline will pass through here, China is helping Pakistan build railway lines and Pakistan is continuing to dredge to turn Gwadar into a Naval Base.
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O paa jee, no one is talking about Gawadar and its importance, tell me what were they doing there with fake number plates, is it ok to violate the law of land??? simple yes and no will do!!!
now please focus on the thread at hand, first you were saying it was aid thing and now energy hub bull****... please tell me, either aid or energy hub thing, is it OK to roam around in a car with fake number plates? what business have forced them to their in disguise? why didn't they infomred the relevant authorities... now please do not paste another article from indian news sites...
