NEW DELHI (PTI): Pakistan has ordered four officials of the Indian consulate general in Karachi to leave the country within two weeks, a Pakistan high commission release said here on Oct.19, 1993.

According to the Press release, the deputy high commissioner of India Bal Anand was summoned to the foreign office in Islamabad Monday evening and conveyed the Pakistan government’s decision to “withdraw” the four officials of the Indian consulate general,

The officials are V.M.Kwatra (Consul), Muran Lal (staff member), Narinder Singh (staff member) and Madan Ghiil Dayal (staff member).

Islamabad charged them with: being “involved in activities in compatible with their status” amounting {0 interference in the: internal affairs of Pakistan.

India on Monday expelled four: Pakistani diplomats, stationed New Delhi and Bombay, on espionage charges and ordered to leave the country in two week time.

It had been a practice between the two nations to expel diplomats and other members of respective high commission on charges of espionage frequently.

 

Article extracted from this publication >>  October 22, 1993