| Two policemen shot dead outside US consulate in Pakistan |
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Police arrested one of the assailants, an Afghan man, after chasing him through a nearby park.
It was not immediately clear how many gunmen were involved in the attack. Police have cordoned off the area.
Lieutenant Afsar, an off-duty naval officer who was nearby, said: "We did not see anybody shooting, but we heard the shooting."
At the US Embassy in the federal capital Islamabad, diplomats were scrambling to get more information on the shooting. US spokesman Terry White said: "We are trying to get details from the Pakistani authorities."
Karachi police said they took a pistol from the Afghan man seized in the park.
Security has been intense around the US facility since a car bombing last June killed 12 people, all Pakistanis. Cement barricades stop vehicles from entering the area and high walls surround the consulate.
Five suspects accused of masterminding the June bombing are on trial in the southern port city, charged with conspiracy, murder and terrorism. They face the death penalty if convicted.
The car bombing was one of a series of attacks on foreigners and minority Christians in Pakistan since President Pervez Musharraf threw his support behind the US-led war against terrorism.
There has been a great deal of public outrage over a possible war on Iraq and warnings of violence from analysts as well as Muslims militants should Musharraf support the US against Saddam Hussein.
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