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Kathmandu,Tuesday January 18, 2000 Magh 4th, 2056.
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False allegations
We wish to draw your attention to para 5 of the
letter to the editor titled “Thriving on anarchy”, by Mr K C Bhatt (Jan 14,
TKP).
This embassy would like to clarify that the
apartment of the embassy official was fully searched by the police twice. Even in the
second search, which was conducted in the presence of representatives of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of His Majesty’s Government of Nepal and the Embassy of Pakistan, not
a shred of evidence was found in the apartment. Despite that the embassy official was
illegally detained and kept at an unknown place for forty-eight hours during which the
embassy was neither informed on his whereabout and well-being nor granted any consular
access. This embassy maintains that the action constituted a serious breach of the Vienna
Convention on Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities of 1961, and that it had formally
conveyed on the 4th of January, 2000, the government of Pakistan’s decision to recall
the official and carry out necessary investigations.
We have full confidence in the judgement of our
Nepali friends about the authenticity or otherwise of the allegations. Clearly, certain
vested interests are consciously engaged in a vicious propaganda campaign against the
embassy of Pakistan in Kathmandu to malign the image of this mission and that of Pakistan.
M Jamshaid Iftikhar,
Deputy Chief of Mission,
Embassy of Pakistan, Kathmandu |
