Islamabad, Aug 12 - The US embassy here has denied reports that one of its diplomats had been declared persona-non-grata after an apparent scuffle with the police in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

Gerald M. Feierstein, the charge de Affairs at the US mission here, told Online news agency that the facts about the incident, in which the diplomat allegedly pointed a gun at the police and which occurred in Peshawar's diplomatic enclave had been distorted.

He said that neither had the diplomat pointed a gun at the police nor had the foreign office served him with a notification declaring him persona-non-grata.

He maintained that no one was being investigated in this regard.