Woolmer case: Pak sends diplomats to Jamaica

Islamabad, Mar 24: The Pakistan government has directed its mission in Washington to send immediately two diplomats to Jamaica to touch base with the authorities there over national coach Bob Woolmer's death.

Woolmer had died mysteriously in Jamaica last Sunday a day after the national cricket team's humiliating exit from the World Cup. The Jamaican police feared on Thursday that Woolmer was apparently strangulated to death in his hotel room by at least two persons, who were known to him as there were no signs of resistance.

Two of our counsellors in Washington, Zahid Hafeez and Shahid Ahmed, are on their way to Jamaica, Dawn newspaper quoted Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam as saying.

Asked if it was at the behest of the Jamaican government that the Pakistani diplomats had been rushed to Jamaica, her response was regating! However, she maintained that Pakistan was in touch with the Jamaican government regarding the unfortunate incident.

UNI