By Asghar Ali Mubarak
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday condemned the Government of India’s decision to declare two officials of the High Commission for Pakistan in New Delhi persona non grata (PNG) requiring them to leave India within 24 hours, media reported.
According to an official press release issued by the foreign office of Pakistan on the matter, “The Indian action has been accompanied by a negative pre-planned and orchestrated media campaign, which is a part of persistent anti-Pakistan propaganda.”
Two staff members of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi were lifted by the Indian authorities today (31 May 2020) on false and unsubstantiated charges. They were, however, released on intervention by the High Commission.
A possible detention and torture as well as threatening and pressuring of the diplomatic officials to accept false charges was reported which has been emphatically slammed by the government of Pakistan.
Pakistan strongly rejects the baseless Indian allegations and deplores the Indian action which is in clear violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations as well as the norms of diplomatic conduct especially in an already vitiated atmosphere, the press release reads further. The High Commission for Pakistan in New Delhi has always worked within the parameters of international law and diplomatic norms.
