(MENAFN) On Friday, shut down its consulate in Pakistan's Peshawar after a suspected police attack on long-disputed Afghan Market in the city.
The nation's embassy in Islamabad stated in a statement that the consulate was closed in protest after police attacked the Afghan Market in Firdaus neighborhood of the city reportedly claimed by the Afghan authorities as a property of the Afghan government.
This happened after a Peshawar court verdict ordering the possession of the market - including scores of shops in the city's busy commercial district - to handover to a Pakistani citizen called Shaukat Kashmir.
The statement published in Pashto affirmed, ''Unfortunately, the provincial police in Pakistan raided the market again last night and took down the Afghanistan flag without coordinating with the Embassy. The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan strongly condemns this action and considers it against diplomatic principles and good neighborhood terms''.
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