Pak may pull out 4 high commission staffers from India

November 01, 2016 11:15

Pakistan is considering pulling out from India four officers posted at its high commission in New Delhi, days after India declared one Pakistani official persona non-grata for espionage activities, a media report said today.

"This is under consideration. A final decision would be taken shortly," a source at the foreign office was quoted as saying by Dawn News.

The names of the officers -- commercial counsellor Syed Furrukh Habib and first secretaries Khadim Hussain, Mudassir Cheema and Shahid Iqbal -- were made public after a recorded statement of high commission staffer Mehmood Akhtar was released to the media, the report said.

Akhtar was expelled from India after being declared 'persona non-grata'. Akhtar told Dawn News that he had given the statement under duress.

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