Sharjah 24 – AFP: A security guard was wounded Friday by shots fired at Pakistan's embassy in the Afghan capital, in what Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called "an assassination attempt" on the head of the mission.
"I demand immediate investigation & action against perpetrators of this heinous act," Sharif tweeted.
A Kabul police spokesman said one suspect had been arrested and two light weapons seized after security forces swept a nearby building "and prevented the continuation of gunfire".
An embassy official said a lone attacker "came behind the cover of houses and started firing".
"The ambassador and all the other staff are safe, but we are not going outside of the embassy building as a precaution," he said.
A spokesman for Afghanistan's foreign ministry said they strongly condemned the "failed attack".
"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan will not allow any malicious actors to pose a threat to the security of diplomatic missions in Kabul," it said in a statement.
"Security agencies will investigate this incident seriously. After identifying the perpetrators, they will be punished according to law."
The attack comes just days after Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan's minister of state for foreign affairs, visited Kabul for talks with the Taliban government.
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