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ISLAMABAD – The United States demanded the immediate release of an American official arrested in the shooting deaths of two Pakistanis, upping the stakes Saturday in a spat that has revealed the fragility of a relationship Washington believes is crucial for success in Afghanistan and against al-Qaida.
The U.S. Embassy said the man had a diplomatic passport and was immune from prosecution. It accused the Pakistani police of illegally detaining him. The mission said the man, who the U.S. has not named, acted in self-defense against two armed men who approached his car in the city of Lahore on Thursday, intent on robbing him.
Rana Sanaullah, the law minister in Punjab province where the killings took place, said the American's fate would be decided in the courts. He said the provincial government could not free him even if directed to by the central government.
"It is for the court to decide whether someone having a diplomatic passport is allowed to kill someone," he told The Associated Press. "If the American government wants to get him released, it will have to plead before the court."
Allowing the American to return home without facing trial could spark a potentially destabilizing backlash against the government, which is already weak and accused by critics of being subservient to the U.S. The killings in Lahore have been seized on by many in Pakistan as fresh evidence of America's malign intent in the region.