India has decided to expel a Pakistani visa official for “espionage activities”, the foreign ministry said Thursday, with tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors already running high, reports said.
India’s foreign secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar summoned Pakistan’s high commissioner to inform him of the decision to expel the consular official, who was briefly detained.
“FS (foreign secretary) summons Pak High Commissioner to convey that Pak High Commission staffer has been declared persona non grata for espionage activities,” Indian foreign ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said on Twitter.