India, Pakistan expel each other's diplomats

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Author: rsc...@nospam.ho
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:00

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NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan have expelled one diplomat
from each other's missions in New Delhi and Islamabad alleging
that they were involved in activities incompatible with their
diplomatic status, a move that may cast its shadow on the
process of bilateral dialogue.

While Pakistan asked India to withdraw S.K. Chaudhury, attache
in the Indian mission in Islamabad on October 6, New Delhi in an
apparent retaliatory move the same evening, requested for a
similar pullout of Murad Balloch, attache in the Pakistan high
commission here.

Both the diplomats have been asked to leave station by October
20, an external affairs ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday.
The announcement of the latest round of expulsions came within
six weeks of both India and Pakistan asking each other to
withdraw two staff members on similar grounds.

The spokesman rejected as entirely false Islamabad's charge that
Mr Chaudhury had indulged in activities incompatible with his
diplomatic status. News of the expulsions coincided with the visit
of Queen Elizabeth to Pakistan. She is arriving here on October
12 on a week-long state visit.
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