Pakistan puts US envoy on 'black list' for bike rider's road crash death
24 April 2018 5:27 PM GMT
Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Ministry on Tuesday placed US diplomat Colonel Joseph Emmanuel Hall on the "blacklist" for killing a motorcyclist in a road accident here, prohibiting the US defence and air attache from leaving the country.
Hall was driving a Land Cruiser and jumped a red signal on April 7 near Islamabad's Daman-e-Koh Chowk, hitting a motorcycle carrying two men.
The riders suffered injuries and later one of them -- Atiq Baig -- died.
The ministry's announcement came during a hearing at Islamabad High Court on a petition filed by the father of deceased, the Express Tribune reported.
Representing the government, Deputy Attorney General Raja Khalid Mehmood informed the court that the Interior Ministry had placed the US official's name in the "blacklist" instead of putting him in the Exit Control List (ECL) as it was a long
process.
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