South Korea: Two Pakistani diplomats steal chocolate, hat from a retailer

On Saturday (April 24), the South Korean police recognized two Pakistani diplomats who stole gadgets value $11.70 from a retailer in Itaewon in Yongsan District of Seoul, reported The Korea Times.
One of the diplomats stole a hat value $10 (11000 South Korean gained) whereas one other diplomat shoplifted chocolate treats value $1.70 (1900 South Korean gained). It have to be talked about that each have been caught stealing from the identical store on totally different dates. While the hat was stolen on February 23, the chocolate treats have been stolen on January 10. After the hat was stolen, one of many retailer workers filed a criticism with the Yongsan police. An investigation into the matter was launched by the regulation enforcement authorities.
On analysing the CCTV footage, the cops recognized the ‘hat thief’ as a 35-year-old Pakistani diplomat. However, the case in opposition to him was closed due to the immunity loved by diplomats in host international locations underneath the Vienna Convention of Diplomatic Relations. Moreover, the Yongsan police acknowledged that the shop proprietor didn’t need to additional proceed within the case because the accused’s colleague had made the fee on his behalf. Despite the diplomatic immunity loved by the opposite shoplifter, he’s nonetheless underneath investigation for stealing $1.70 value of chocolate treats.
Pakistani diplomats overseas proceed to embarrass Islamabad
This isn’t the primary time when diplomats of Pakistan have embarrassed their nation by being accused of such crimes. In 2018, a Pakistani diplomat was caught stealing the pockets of his Kuwaiti counterpart. Due to the worsening picture of the Pakistani diplomats, the United States authorities had imposed journey restrictions banning their motion past a 25-miles radius round Washington DC with out approval between May 2018 and May 2019.
Even Pakistan’s Permanent Representative on the United Nations, Munir Akram has additionally been accused of home violence by his live-in associate. He was excused as a result of diplomatic immunity. In one other incident, an Assistant Visa officer at Pakistan excessive fee, Bangladesh, Mohamed Mazhar Khan was arrested after his position in a syndicate was busted. The syndicate used to smuggle  Fake Indian Currency Notes by way of Assam and West Bengal border.
During the investigation, the paperwork recovered from his possession uncovered his hyperlinks with members of terrorist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir. In an analogous incident, one other Pakistan diplomat Farina Arshad who was Second Secretary on the Pakistan High Commission in Bangladesh was charged after a militant of jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) Idris Sheikh admitted her hyperlinks with the militant group.