Attack on Pakistani Embassy assailed

ISLAMABAD — The United States condemned Saturday an attack a day earlier on the Pakistani Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital, in which a senior Pakistani diplomat escaped unhurt but one of his Pakistani guards was wounded.

Shots were fired at the embassy from a nearby building by an assailant or assailants. Shortly after the shooting, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif took to Twitter, calling Friday’s attack an “assassination attempt” against Pakistan’s head of mission in Afghanistan, Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani.

Pakistan repatriated the wounded guard, Israr Mohammad, by helicopter and he was being treated Saturday at a hospital.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Ned Price said Friday that the U.S. condemned the embassy attack, telling reporters “we offer our sympathies and wish a quick recovery to those affected by the violence.”

The United States is “deeply concerned by the attack on a foreign diplomat and we call for a full and transparent investigation,” Price said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.