Afghanistan: Pakistani held for attack on UK soldier

Pakistani held for attack on UK soldier

MAZAR-I-SHARIF: One of four men arrested for an attack that killed a British soldier in northern Aghanistan is a Pakistani who had arrived in the country just days earlier, police said Sunday.

Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying British soldiers serving with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the main northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Saturday, killing one and wounding five.

An Afghan interpreter was also wounded in the attack on an unmarked ISAF vehicle near the city’s famous Blue Mosque.

Three of the men detained after the attack were Afghans but a fourth said he was a Pakistani national who had only entered Afghanistan a few days before the ambush, Mazar-i-Sharif police spokesman Shirgan Dorani told AFP. The man had said he had trained at a religious school, or madrassa, in Pakistan, Dorani said. afp