Pakistan has just released an FBI agent on bail, after a three days detention for carrying ammunition onto a flight.
The American agent was arrested on May 5 when the authorities at the Karachi airport found 15 bullets for a 9 millimeter handgun and three knives on him, during a routine check. Authorities say that Joel Cox was bound for Islamabad, the capital city.
He has been freed bail after submitting a surety bond of $10,000.
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JenPaksi, U.S. State Department spokeswoman had confirmed the FBI agent’s arrest via a press statement on Wednesday, “This individual detained is an employee of the FBI who was on a temporary duty assignment to provide routine assistance to the legal attache at the U.S. mission.”
Psaki told the press that Washington is working closely with officials in Islamabad to resolve the issue.
Minutes before the bail announcement, Tasneem Aslam, spokeswoman for Pakistani Foreign Office said in her press statement, “Yes, an FBI official was arrested at Karachi airport. The Karachi police officials already have given some preliminary details, the matter is under investigation.”
She also said that Joel Cox was in Pakistan on a short-term visa for his temporary duty at the American embassy, and supposedly did not have diplomatic immunity.
Due to the War on Terror, the United States and Pakistan have had uneasy ties. The relations between the two countries took a major downturn in the year 2011, when a CIA contractor Raymond Davis killed two Pakistani men who he claimed were threatening him.
Later the U.S. Navy Seals had also killed Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil which is followed by NATO troops misconduct that mistakenly led to the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers on a border post with Afghanistan.
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