
An Afghan national has been arrested and charged after Watervliet (County in New York) police said he attacked his neighbour as a hate crime because of the victim’s Pakistani background.
Police identified the suspect as 18-year-old Hossein G. Haidar and said the incident began with an argument between the two men over political and military tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Investigators said the argument started one day before the attack at the neighbour’s home in the city.