Road accident in Islamabad triggers India-Pakistan spat.

Byline: Baqir Sajjad Syed and Munawer Azeem

ISLAMABAD -- Detention of two Indian High Commission employees after a road accident by the federal capital police sparked off a diplomatic row between the two estranged neighbours.

The two Indians, who were driving to the high commission in a dark coloured car early in the morning hit a pedestrian, who was crossing the road, according to the first information report registered with the Secretariat Police Station.

The pedestrian, who has not been identified in the report, was seriously injured and shifted to the Poly Clinic hospital by the passersby, the police said.

The two persons in the car, police said, tried to flee after the accident on Khayaban-i-Suhrawardy, but were stopped by the people who had gathered at the scene. They were handed over to the police and were later shifted to the police station for interrogation. According to the FIR, fake currency notes worth Rs10,000 were seized from them during their search.

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Deputy Superintendent of Police Iqbal Khan said the Indians were detained and shifted to the police station for completing the legal process.

The two employees of the high commission were identified in the FIR as Paul Selvadhas, who was driving the car, and Dwimu Brahma.

The two reportedly belong to India's Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). A sixteen-member specialised security unit from CISF has been deployed at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad since 2009 for the protection of the high commission and diplomats posted here.

Both were booked by the police for reckless driving, causing injury due to negligent driving, and possessing fake currency.

India's electronic media soon after the accident...