NYC diplo ‘beat wife’

He has immunity

An Afghan diplomat is accused of beating his wife so badly that she ended up in a Queens emergency room — but he won’t be charged because he has diplomatic immunity, police sources told The Post on Sunday.

Mohammad Yama Aini, 46, allegedly assaulted his 30-year-old wife Mezhgan inside their Union Street home in Flushing at 12:30 a.m. Saturday, sources said.

Aini then drove his wife to Flushing Hospital, according to sources.

The woman told hospital workers that he had pulled her hair, slapped her and punched her in the face, leaving her with swelling, pain and redness on her right eye, sources said.

The workers called the police, who arrived at the hospital at 4:30 p.m., according to sources.

But Aini could not be charged because he is a counselor to the Afghanistan Mission to the UN, sources said.

“Obviously, [the wife] was hurt enough that she went to the hospital, and the hospital felt compelled enough to notify the police,” a highranking source said. “Even if [he] did it to a US citizen, his country doesn’t have to do anything at all.”

Aini denied Sunday to The Post that he hit his wife.

“I think you have it wrong,’’ he said over the intercom at the building where he and his family live. “Nothing happened. The hospital is saying nothing happened, and the doctors and my wife say that nothing happened between us.”

When a reporter asked to speak to his wife, he said she was not at home.

The Afghanistan Mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment.

Last year, German diplomat Joachim Haubrichs was accused of beating his wife so badly that the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs petitioned the US State Department to request Germany waive his immunity.

Instead, Germany summoned Haubrichs back across the pond.