Police in the federal capital arrested two employees of the Indian High Commission on Monday over their alleged involvement in a hit-and-run incident, a private TV channel reported.
A vehicle, reportedly a BMW saloon, hit a pedestrian walking on the embassy road at around 8am on Monday. The two high commission staffers, Silvades Paul and Dawamu Brahamu, tried to flee after the incident but were caught by bystanders and handed over to local police.
Local police officials have also informed the Foreign Office (FO) of the incident.
The pedestrian was critically injured and was shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment, according to eyewitnesses.
Earlier this year, in a similar incident, n SUV belonging to the US Embassy drove into a car on a main artery of the federal capital, killing a woman and injuring five members of her family.
The police arrested the Pakistani driver of the US Embassy, named Amjad Zaman, and registered a case against him at Margalla police station.
The casualties were driven to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Hospital, where medics said one of the injured was in a critical condition.
Accidents involving vehicles belonging to diplomatic missions, especially the US Embassy, have been frequent in recent years and in most cases the drivers got away unpunished by invoking diplomatic immunity.
In April 2018, a motorcyclist was killed after being hit by a vehicle driven by the military attaché at the US Embassy in Islamabad.
In Feb 2013, an SUV driven by an administrative assistant at the US Embassy hit two motorcyclists near Kohsar Complex on Margalla Avenue, killing one of them and injuring the other.
In July 2010, an officer attached to the US Embassy’s Force Protection Department hit and killed a young man riding a motorcycle on 7th Avenue.
In 2011, a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, caused countrywide outrage after he killed two persons when he ran over a motorcycle in Lahore. The deadly incident had strained ties between Washington and Islamabad. Davis went scot-free after paying blood money to the families of the victims.
