U.S. consulate employee shoots dead 2 armed men in Pakistan

Police said it was unclear what the intentions were of the two men who approached the employee's white sedan.

Maybe they wanted to have lunch?

I'm sure they did not mean him any harm, that is why they pointed guns at him!


The Los Angeles Times
The shooting, which occurred late in the afternoon at a heavily congested intersection, could spark a backlash here against the United States, which is already seen by many here as a superpower that exploits Pakistan and tramples on its sovereignty. Not long after the incident, angry crowds burned tires outside the Lahore police station where the man was being questioned and shouted anti-American slogans.

An employee of the U.S. consulate in Lahore shot and killed two armed Pakistani men on a motorcycle Thursday in what the employee told police was an act of self-defense after the men approached his car and one of them brandished a pistol, authorities said.

A bystander was also killed when he was struck by another consulate vehicle arriving at the scene, police said.

Police said it was unclear what the intentions were of the two men who approached the employee's white sedan. Aslam Tareen, Lahore's police chief, said in a television interview that the employee told them he was stopped at a traffic light when the two men pulled up along the right side of the car, then drove around to the other side.

One of the men on the motorcycle then pulled out a handgun, Tareen said. The consulate employee pulled out his own handgun and fired at the two men several times. One of the men died at the scene and the other later at a local hospital. Tareen said the second man on the motorcycle also had a pistol, and that both handguns were loaded.

The employee, an American citizen, then called colleagues in a second consulate car nearby, which rushed to the intersection. That second car struck and killed a bystander, Obeid ur-Rehman, Tareen said.

Gunmen attack U.S. consulate in Pakistan

President Zardari , is giving up his main powers which may ease political tensions in Pakistan but will do nothing to ease tensions with the Taliban .

The Taliban will never be happy with anything or Anybody , Their attacks like the ones at the U.S. consulate and the Political rally where they did nothing but kill and injure their own Muslim people Should tell everyone that !

(Reuters) - Militants using a car bomb and firing weapons attacked the U.S. consulate in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday hours after a suicide bomber killed 38 people elsewhere in the northwest, officials said.

Pakistani Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the attack on the consulate, in which eight people, including three militants, were killed but no one in the mission was hurt.
They vowed more violence.

Islamist attacks have raised fears for the future of the nuclear-armed U.S. ally, also beset by economic problems and chronic political wrangling.

But in a move that should ease political infighting, President Asif Ali Zardari called on parliament to approve quickly reforms that will see him give up his main powers.

The assault on the tightly guarded consulate was launched hours after the bomb blast at a rally of supporters of an ethnic Pashtun-based political party staunchly opposed to the militants.

The attacks underscored the danger posed by militants after a year of military offensives which have dealt the Islamists significant setbacks.

"I saw attackers in two vehicles. Some of them carried rocket-propelled grenades. They first opened fire at security personnel at the post near the consulate and then blasts went off," Peshawar resident Siraj Afridi told Reuters.