Updated 13 May 2025 at 21:51 IST
New Delhi: India has expelled Pakistani official at its high commission as person non-grata. The official has been asked to leave India within 24 hours.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a statement said, “The Government of India has declared a Pakistani official, working at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, persona non grata for indulging in activities not in keeping with his official status in India. The official has been asked to leave India within 24 hours. Charge d’ Affaires, Pakistan High Commission, was issued a demarche to this effect today.”
The government's decision comes amid heightened India-Pakistan tensions following the Pahalgam terror attack which India avenged through its anti-terror ‘Operation Sindoor.’ During the operation, the Indian Armed Forces dismantled Pakistani terror camps and its air bases both within Pakistan’s territory and in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Additionally, India’s Air Defence Integrated System successfully neutralised Pakistan’s drone and missile attacks, leaving Islamabad and Rawalpindi with a crushing defeat and a retaliation that they are going to remember for a very long time.
Addressing the nation for the first time ever since Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday crumbled Pakistan and its backed and sponsored terrorists saying India's strong action forced Islamabad to reach out to global community seeking help and requesting for ceasefire.
PM Modi highlighted that under Operation Sindoor, India brought to dust multiple terror camps, air bases in Pakistan, killing over 100 terrorists, whose terror groups have been planning against our India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his address to the nation, made it clear to the world that India will no longer tolerate Pakistan's nuclear blackmail. The Prime Minister also told Islamabad that if New Delhi will engage in talks, it will only be on the return of the Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Mincing no words, Prime Minister Modi told Pakistan that terror and talks, terror and trade, terror and water cannot go and flow together.
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Published 13 May 2025 at 21:12 IST