Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistani officials said on Saturday it had served an ultimatum to a member of Indian High Commission in Islamabad ordering him to leave the country in 24 hours himself. The announcement came from Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to an allegation of the diplomat being “incompatible with his privileged status”
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Hours after India expelled a Pakistani official from the newly minted Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi on similar grounds alleging espionage and engagement that do not characterize an official duty, and reciprocal expulsion.
Broader Gauging in the Neighborhood
Reciprocal evictions are taking place on India and Pakistan already at elevated pitch. The diplomatic battle ensued from a spate of the recent military one, in the wake of ‘Operation Sindoor’ by New-Delhi where it said that it had targeted terrorist infrastructure in Indian territory across the border in revenge for an April deadly attack that killed nearly 60 people at Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam.
Now, the persona non grata exchange is relatively standard feature in the fraught relationship between India and Pakistan, much time behind samples of mistrust that has yet not eased.
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The expulsion additionally tightens the diplomatic screws between nuclear-armed nuclear-armed neighbors, which have always had a very precarious relationship. Though the “incompatible activities” were not described in full by Pakistan on record, past actions akin to this often imply espionage or defiance to the diplomatic norms. This tit for tat raises the bar for relationship between India and Pakistan a notch higher indicating the close to breaking point of overall political and security tensions which often manifest to rob diplomacy of its stature to enable actual dialogue/collaboration on pressing issues.
