ISLAMABAD/KABUL, Nov 03 (DNA): Pakistani diplomats have faced harassment
by officials in Afghanistan as many complaints were emerged last night,
diplomatic sources familiar with the matter told the media on Sunday.

Sources said that the Afghan intelligence officials started harassing
Pakistani officials from the Saturday night as their vehicles had been
stopped on different routes and inappropriate remarks launched against
them.

The diplomats have also complained about facing difficulties in their
movements in Afghanistan while being heading towards Pakistan Embassy in
Kabul, sources said.

They added that Afghan intelligence officials have been using abusive
language with the Pakistani diplomats.

Sources closer to the embassy said that Islamabad has raised the issue
with the Afghan foreign ministry. Sources added that the Kabul’s
ministry seems powerless before the officials of Afghan secret agency,
National Directorate of Security (NDS).

The complaints have not emerged for the first time in Afghanistan as
Pakistani diplomats faced difficulties in movements in past and harassed
by Kabul officials.

Meanwhile, Pakistan has taken up the matter with the Afghanistan’s
Ministry for Foreign Affairs; however it appears that foreign ministry
officials are helpless in front of Afghan secret agency as no action has
been taken yet.

Afghan intelligence agency officials have made it a norm to block the
route of Pakistani diplomats’ vehicles and follow the vehicles all the
way from their homes to the embassy and from the embassy to the homes.