Pakistan court remands US national in custody
PESHAWAR, A Pakistani court on Saturday remanded in custody an American national thought to have been working for a private security company, after he outstayed his Pakistani visa, police said.The decision comes with relations between Pakistan and the United States deeply strained over the arrest last month of a CIA contractor who shot dead two men in Lahore.The US embassy in Islamabad identified the man arrested Friday as Aaron Mark DeHaven.Police said he was taken into custody from Falcon Complex, a residential area in the northwestern city of Peshawar that runs into the lawless tribal belt near the Afghan border.
A US national was kidnapped in Pakistan in the eastern city of Lahore, police officials said on Saturday.