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PESHAWAR: A USAID worker, along with his driver, has been shot dead in the University town area of Peshawar on Wednesday.
Sources say he was working on the FATA development program for the USAID organisation and was reportedly on his way to work when unidentified men opened fire on his car, killing both occupants immediately.
I can confirm that an American citizen and his Pakistani driver were killed in the attack, Wes Robertson, a spokesman for the US embassy, told AFP.
The two were in a car belonging to an organisation involved in a US-funded development programme in the tribal areas.
The gunmen ambushed the car and shot dead a foreign national and his driver in the citys University Town neighbourhood, local police officer said.
A security official in Peshawar identified the man as an official with the US-funded FDP, the federally-administrated tribal areas development programme.
He was heading towards his office in the University Town area where the attack happened, an FDP official told AFP.
The attack is currently under investigation and we are coordinating with the local authorities, the US embassy spokesman said.
The University town neighbourhood is known to be a posh area of the provincial capital and several foreigners are based here.
DAWN.COM | NWFP | USAID worker, driver shot dead in Peshawar
Sources say he was working on the FATA development program for the USAID organisation and was reportedly on his way to work when unidentified men opened fire on his car, killing both occupants immediately.
I can confirm that an American citizen and his Pakistani driver were killed in the attack, Wes Robertson, a spokesman for the US embassy, told AFP.
The two were in a car belonging to an organisation involved in a US-funded development programme in the tribal areas.
The gunmen ambushed the car and shot dead a foreign national and his driver in the citys University Town neighbourhood, local police officer said.
A security official in Peshawar identified the man as an official with the US-funded FDP, the federally-administrated tribal areas development programme.
He was heading towards his office in the University Town area where the attack happened, an FDP official told AFP.
The attack is currently under investigation and we are coordinating with the local authorities, the US embassy spokesman said.
The University town neighbourhood is known to be a posh area of the provincial capital and several foreigners are based here.
DAWN.COM | NWFP | USAID worker, driver shot dead in Peshawar
