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Espionage case: Pakistani High Commission staffers sent back

The cover of the ISI spy network was blown after Mehmoood Akhtar, an ISI official working in the Pakistani High Commission was held by Delhi Police last week. The police arrested four Indian agents on the revelations made by Akhtar. Akhtar also told interrogators about ISI officials runnig the network from the mission.

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The cover of the ISI spy network was blown after an ISI official working in the Pakistani High Commission was arrested by Delhi Police recently
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Six staffers in the Pakistani High Commission in Delhi, including ISI officials, returned to their country after New Delhi provided evidence of their involvement in running a spy ring.

According to sources, those who have left include commercial counsellor Syed Furrukh Habib and first secretaries Khadim Hussain, Mudassir Cheema and Shahid Iqbal. DNA reported on Wednesday New Delhi was mounitng pressure on Pakistan to send back Habib, a senior ISI officer posted as trade counsellor in the mission who was heading the espionage network that included three other ISI officers.

The cover of the ISI spy network was blown after Mehmoood Akhtar, an ISI official working in the Pakistani High Commission was held by Delhi Police last week. The police arrested four Indian agents on the revelations made by Akhtar. Akhtar also told interrogators about ISI officials runnig the network from the mission.

Though there was no official confirmation on the number of diplomats leaving India, according to Pakistan High Commission sources there were six mission officials who have left or were in the process of leaving.

"The decision has been taken after it became impossible for the officials to work in this vitiated atmosphere. Indian government is threatening and blackmailing our diplomats. So in this condition, it is impossible for us to stay in this country and work," the sources alleged.

The Pakistani action comes days after India declared Pakistani official Mehmood Akhtar persona non-grata for espionage activities, triggering a tit for tat action from Islamabad, which also expelled an Indian High Commission official there. Earlier, media reports emerging from Islamabad said Pakistan may ask at least two officials of the Indian High Commission to leave the country for their alleged involvement in subversive activities.

Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan, Syed Haider Shah was summoned to the Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday and conveyed the government's grave concern and strong protest at the recent escalation in the incidents of ceasefire violations by the Pakistan side at the Line of Control (LoC) and International Border (IB), which have resulted into several fatalities and casualties on the Indian side among civilians and security forces personnel.

The Government also registered its strong protest on the mutilation of the body of an Indian soldier by a terrorist who escaped across the Line of Control after committing the heinous crime.

The Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan was conveyed the Government's expectation that Pakistan will not take any step inimical to peace along the LoC and IB and to the security of India.

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