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BBC OS: An Afghan Diplomat Shot Dead In Karachi

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06/02/2017 GMT

An Afghan Diplomat Shot Dead In Karachi

BBC World Service - BBC OS, An Afghan Diplomat Shot Dead In Karachi

Afghan officials say one of their diplomats has been shot dead in Pakistan.

Afghan officials say one of their diplomats has been shot dead at the Afghan Consulate in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.

Harun Najafizada from the BBC Afghan Service in Kabul talks about the shooting of an Afghan diplomat in Pakistan.

Also today; latest on the fighting in Syria; the scale of child abuse in the Australian Catholic Church revealed, and Somalia's first ever televised presidential elections. And Patriots win the US Superbowl, and David Beckham is in the headlines over allegations of leaked emails. 

(Photo: Paramilitary soldiers outside the Afghan consulate in Karachi. Credit: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)

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