New Delhi: Two Visa Assistants of Pakistan High Commission were apprehended red-handed indulging in espionage in New Delhi. Two visa assistants Abid Hussain and Tahir Khan work as Visa Assistants and are ISI operatives.
India is declaring them Persona-non grata and they will be departing for Pakistan tomorrow.
As per initial reports, the employees were ISI operatives in the guise of diplomats and were apprehended red-handed by the Delhi Police.
“The government has declared both these officials persona non grata for indulging in activities incompatible with their status as members of a diplomatic mission and asked them to leave the country within twenty-four hours,” the MEA said.
It further said that Pakistan’s Charge de Affairs was issued a demarche in which a strong protest was lodged over the activities of the two officials which were against India’s national security.
“Pakistan’s Charge de Affairs was asked to ensure that no member of its diplomatic mission should indulge in activities inimical to India or behave in a manner incompatible with their diplomatic status,” the MEA said. (MN)
