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A PAKISTANI court released an unidentified US citizen on bail today after Washington identified him as an FBI agent.
The court directed the man to submit a surety bond of one million rupees (£5,775) for his bail.
Police detained him on May 5 at an airport in the southern city of Karachi after seizing ammunition and three knives from him.
He was stopped as he was about to board a flight for Islamabad, police said, adding that officials had also found several electronic devices that were being examined.
A US official eventually admitted that the man was an FBI agent and claimed that he was in Pakistan as part of a multi-agency anti-corruption programme.
The official claimed that the agent had appeared to have made a mistake and US authorities were hopeful that the situation would soon be resolved with the agent’s release.