The two have been missing since around 8 a.m.
New Delhi:
Two senior Indian officials are missing in Islamabad, ANI news agency quoted sources as saying on Monday. The two have been missing since around 8 a.m.
New Delhi has complained to the Pakistani government.
The incident comes after two Pakistani officials from the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi were charged with espionage and deported. The two worked in the visa section in Delhi.
Several top Indian diplomats in Pakistan have been aggressively harassed in Islamabad in recent days and India has even protested the excessive surveillance.
The vehicle of Indian charge d’affaires Gaurav Ahluwalia was chased by a member of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) recently. A biker was seen following the grievor’s car.
In March, the Indian High Commission in Pakistan sent a strong protest note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad to protest the harassment of its officers and staff.
In the note, India cited 13 cases only in March and asked Pakistan to end these incidents and “to urgently investigate these incidents and to request relevant agencies to ensure that similar incidents don’t reproduce, “according to ANI.
