Sources in Delhi police confirmed that the diplomat was pushed around by several men. PHOTO: FILE
In this regard, he informed the foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani that two persons involved in the incident have already been arrested and an FIR as been lodged.
The Pakistan foreign office summoned the Indian deputy high commissioner to express serious concern over the mishandling of a diplomat.
The diplomat and his driver were manhandled by around 10 people in New Delhi, according to the Pakistan High Commission.
Sources in the High Commission said, Zargham Raza, First Secretary Trade in the Pakistan High Commission, was being chased by a motorcycle. There was an altercation after which the biker along with a group of 10 to 15 people manhandled Raza and his driver.
Sources in Delhi police confirmed that the diplomat was pushed around by several men.
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Rex Minor yeah dude lets ban s*x too, this was invented before stone age which does not fit in 21st century concept. Only the first line of your comment made some sense, rest was total c--p. In Pakistan you have ban on Kamasutra but still its top googled word is p--n. About finding nice people: In which culture and which world people will kiss and hug you after you hit them with your car and try to escape? Indeed this incident was a good sign, people helped the victim who otherwise had no chance to get justice due to huge status difference between him and the diplomat. In an ideal civilized world diplomat should have stopped, helped the victim to go to hospital and apologized. It would have showed how cultured Pakistani are. As you jumped on Italian ambassador: If India was guilty why Italy did not take action against India even if it was capable to do so.
For all the liars jumping here, the motorcyle was coming in the wrong direction, just in case if you missed this 'important' aspect of the story..
@Laxman:
"This is better than diplomatic street fights on the roads of Delhi & Islamabad during 80s & 90s. Hope the sanity continue…"
hehe! Yes. Those fights used to be ugly. The diplomats were quite literally beaten by the intelligence workers.
Perhaps @gp65 can shed more light on this.
So all trolls here just read the article again. I am sure Indian foreign office have better set of information and wouldn't have expressed apology if there was any hit and run committed by diplomat.
Woah! Someone is impersonating me here. I feel like a rockstar already! ;)
In India and perhaps in Pakistan too, If a moving car hits a bicycle or a pedestrian, car driver and sometimes passengers (assumed to be uncaring rich people) are beaten by other "well wishing" poor people walking on the street. If injured person happens to be a young girl, driver of the car better run or drive away as soon as possible because young "Brothers" of the injured or even uninjured girl would carry out merciless beating hoping to become hero who helped the damsel in distress by retaliating .
such scenario is common disregarding if car passenger, driver or owners are diplomats or not.
This is really very bad. Where is delhi police chief? They should protect all diplomats from such hilarious act. We indians are very sorry for such an incident.
@iTroll:
Good point, please tell the victim to look for good people! this is not healthy thinking, India needs a cultural revolution wit the Aufklarung, which the chinese Nation of majority nonbelievers undertook, the copmlete ban on Kama Sutra and placing Temples which depict Erotic acts of the myths and portraying the actors as Gods.
India placed the Italian Ambassador under House arrest and this is a mockery of Vienna cnnvention. The introduction of draconian makes littl iference in the 21st century.
Rex Minor
I recommend everyone read the Vienna Convention before commenting on what is right and what is not. An argument without knowledge is ignorance.
This is better than diplomatic street fights on the roads of Delhi & Islamabad during 80s & 90s. Hope the sanity continue...
@Yasin: So what's u cost?????????//
Syed A. Mateen: Bravo you are the man, only you could see that. Respect sir!!!! Could you please share the secret with us.
promised investigation? yea right. we really trust you indian government. we are dead sure you will provide justice to our diplomat. we're just happy he wasnt clubbed to death like the poor prisoner. or raped. i mean this happened in delhi after all
What??? Indian foreign office expressed regret??? ha ha ha... mannn... i mean we hated you before this but at least you guys had self respect. Now you have actually expressed regret to Pakistan??? lol, there goes the illusion of respect you indians had. ha ha ha...
To Water Bottle: Although you show maturity in your comments but recently frustration is dominating your brain. Things in India, Pakistan or South Asia are not all bad and civilized society is not 100 % civilized. Civilized world also has rude, impatient, vulgar, arrogant, stupid, violent, greedy, arrogant, ego, proud (in a bad way) and insensitive people. Else they would not have needed police, law and courts. Similarly, India, Pakistan also have nice people, depends if you want to see water bottle half empty or half full. PS: I am saying nothing new, you already know it very well.
So the regret is here. If a regret has come froward from India, then it is absolutely clear that the Pakistani diplomat did not hit anyone and that was concoction of the cunning indian media and indian apologists.
We are a pathetic nation. I admit this. We the indians are a pathetic nation. A sorry sorry lot. tch tch tch
we indians sincerely apologise to Pakistani nation for harming their diplomat. We are an unruly bunch of people. I hope with time we can get educated and civilized.
ET Mods: I am responding to someone who has written to me for the 2nd time. Pls. allow.
@Water Bottle: "This leads to another question : Do diplomats have immunity in case of accidents? Shouldn’t there be a case lodged against the Pakistani diplomat if he doesn’t enjoy immunity? @Gp65 : I’m sure you know the answer to this."
Yes they do enjoy immunity as per article 29 of the Vienna convention which states "Diplomats must not be liable to any form of arrest or detention. They are immune from civil or criminal prosecution, though the sending country may waive this right under Article 32. Under Article 34, they are exempt from most taxes, and under Article 36 they are exempt from most customs duties"
@Maestro: Thank you for your sane statement.
@Asif Butt @Sardar KHAN
What is the point of giving regrets ? this mad pakistani uncivilized diplomat will hit indian people again and when repercussions come from private individuals we have to show regret again ,I mean this is NO SENSE activity.
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If some blind person ate something at a private hotel,O you india this is your true color if someone hits some diplomat for personal reason, o india you bad bad country
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do pakistanis have some sense ?or is this just blind hatred on which pakistan was build ? or they are driven by what they are taught is syllabus since birth,from urdu media and pakistan intellectuals .
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Pakistani Diplomats are chased by Indian Intelligence Bureau.
Indian IB personnel were chasing Pakistani Diplomat to make it a point to have altercation so that they should stop the Pakistani Diplomat, get him out from the car and beat him severely and thus is whst they wanted and have the job done.
India should provide Police escort to Pakistani Diplomats, so that the same old story should not be repeated time and again in India in future.
This is an unfortunate incident. Only the people there on the ground in Delhi know what happened. An accident, a woman gets injured, driver freaks out, altercation happens. Everyone take a chill pill. Stuff happens. How many times has a US diplomat run over a motorcyclist in Islamabad, then they run for safety to their embassy for fury of the mob. We are both an emotional people particularly regarding women. I am confident that Indian police will do their best to ensure safety of Pakistani diplomatic staff stationed there. Incidents happen - chilax both sides.
@Sardar KHAN: India hasn't apologized. It has expressed because all diplomats are state guests and it is the protocol all over the world that doesn't make the diplomat any less guilty.
@Sardar KHAN: Truth is always harsh. The incident has nothing to do with the diplomat being a Pakistani or an Ecuadorian for that matter. The fact is, he is getting away with the incident even though it was his car that hit the motorcycle because of his diplomatic immunity and those actually got hurt are in jail!
ET Mods: Responding to someone that has written to me. Pls. allow. @Water Bottle: "This leads to another question : Do diplomats have immunity in case of accidents? Shouldn’t there be a case lodged against the Pakistani diplomat if he doesn’t enjoy immunity? @Gp65 : I’m sure you know the answer to this."
Thanks for your confidence in me. Yes they do enjoy immunity as per article 29 Vienna convention which states that "Diplomats must not be liable to any form of arrest or detention. They are immune from civil or criminal prosecution, though the sending country may waive this right under Article 32. Under Article 34, they are exempt from most taxes, and under Article 36 they are exempt from most customs duties". The diplomat thus may have immunity. The chauffer may or may not depending on the technicality of determining who is a diplomat and who is not. HEreis a prior example where a person escaped prosecution in India due to diplomatic immunity. http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=24000 . As you can see the issue was much bigger than a minor injury to the mobike rider - which appears to have happened in this case.
@Yasin: The monetary compensation should be the riders of the bike since they were hit by the diplomat's car and got injured. On top of that, the car driver tried to run away from the scene. I think there should be a through investigation and if needed the driver and the diplomat should be reprimanded. The Pakistani diplomats can not act like the king in a foreign country. And i don't understand why would government of India would apologies for this.
its not an apology. its an expression of regret, similar to the one americans did when they killed 26 soldiers at salala post.
This leads to another question : Do diplomats have immunity in case of accidents?
Shouldn't there be a case lodged against the Pakistani diplomat if he doesn't enjoy immunity?
@Gp65 : I'm sure you know the answer to this.
To Indians...
We have turned our cities and streets into a congregation of mobs.
Indians have become rude, impatient, vulgar, arrogant, stupid and most importantly violent.
Every small exchange, altercation, disagreement, misunderstanding ends up being loud fights in the streets of our cities. We, in the cities, have lost touch with what is humane.
And the money has turned our people into greedy, arrogant, egotistic, proud (in a bad way) and insensitive.
This incidence is a clear outcome of the above. In a civilized world, an accident like this results in the intervention of the police and possible little to no verbal exchange between the two parties.
But in India, it almost always ends in fights.
To Pakistanis,
Don't make an ocean out of a puddle. This was a clear case of misbehavior in the streets and has got nothing to do with one party being a Pakistani.
I'm disappointed that the Indian media hasn't even acknowledged this! -.-
@Yasin: "Appology is not enough. They should pay monetery compensation."
Monetary compensation for what - for hitting a motocr cycle driver who is hurt and then trying to run way? BEcause that is exactly what your diplomat was trying to do when the public stopped him and there was a scuffle.
@Yasin
How much money you reckon?
@Olappl: Regret is not apology. Regret is absolutely appropriate since vigilantism is undesirable. Apology is not called for since the Pakistani diplomat's car was involved in a hit and run and people who saw that got involved - the fact that the car belonged to a Pakistani is not relevant. The exact same reaction would have occurred if the car was being driven by an Indian.
OF course investigation is appropriate and I am glad it is being conducted. As I mentioned earlier no one should take the law in one's hand but in the subcontinent when a car hits a bike and a woman on bike is injured and car is trying to get away, people do become angry and get involved - which is regrettable.
@ET:- "Sources in the High Commission said, Zargham Raza, First Secretary Trade in the Pakistan High Commission, was being chased by a motorcycle..."
ET, You excluded the Indian version of the story? The Pakistani diplomats car collided with a motorcycle and a women was injured in the accident. What followed was unfortunate and happened in the heat of the moment.
So, the Pakistani diplomat's car hits a motorbike, injures the riders, car driver gets aggressive - and its the victims who are arrested?
Appology is not enough. They should pay monetery compensation.
"In this regard, he informed the foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani that two persons involved in the incident have already been arrested and an FIR as been lodged." I suppose you mean has.
Thanks for the apology. The situation has been handled maturely by both sides. Hoping this does not turn into a tit-for-tat like the prison incident as diplomatic personnel are WAY MORE sensitive. No trolling needed from either side, go troll some other article.
Sure. We know what "Pushed around by several men" in India means for us Pakistanis.
And those 2 men arrested, once they get out , they will get treats and feasts for several weeks. They are unofficial living heroes now in India.