Tensions have risen between India and neighboring China and Nepal over border disputes. The country has a new diplomatic dispute with another neighbor, Pakistan. Hours after the Indian government announced the expulsion of half the staff of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, Pakistan announced similar retaliatory measures on Tuesday.
India's foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that there were allegations against members of the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi for spying and dealing with terrorist organizations. That is why India is expelling half of the staff of the commission. The quantity of Indian High Commission staff in Pakistan will likewise be halved.A proclamation from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said that as the Indian government had chosen to decrease the quantity of staff at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi by 50 percent, it had approached Pakistan's Charge d'Affaires to execute the choice inside seven days.
However, Pakistan's foreign ministry dismissed India's allegations as "completely baseless".The ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that the staff of the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi was acting in accordance with diplomatic policy. Even then, in retaliation for New Delhi taking such action, they would also expel half the staff of the Indian High Commission. Not New Delhi's decision, Islamabad has ordered to reduce the number of Indian High Commission staff in Islamabad by half.
Since independence, relations between the two nuclear-armed rivals have been strained and diplomatic expulsions have been frequent. Most of the time these expulsions are based on allegations of espionage. Recently, two Pakistanis working at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi were deported on charges of espionage.They both worked in the visa department. In retaliation, Pakistani police arrested two Indian High Commission staffers in Islamabad on June 17. Pakistan's outside service later said in an explanation that the two Indian laborers had been discharged after a grumbling was stopped against them for being engaged with a street mishap. In this unique situation, the announcement further stated,
The Indian government's horrible battle against Pakistan won't conceal the criminal operations of Indian High Commission authorities.
Tensions between India and Pakistan have risen again over the expulsion of the High Commission staff. As a result, analysts fear that the region could become a new turmoil.
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