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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicPakistan High Commission

Topic: Pakistan High Commission

In 2nd case this month, India declares another Pakistan High Commission staffer persona non grata

Pakistan High Commission staffer has been asked to leave India within 24 hours. This follows expulsion of staffer accused of espionage and declared persona non grata on 13 May.

How Pakistan envoy’s exit from Bangladesh amid ‘honeytrap scandal’ risks the 2 nations’ improving ties

Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh Syed Ahmed Maroof left suddenly after purported viral photos & videos showed him with a woman said to be a senior Bangladesh Bank official.

India declares Pakistan High Commission staffer linked to spy-ring ‘persona non grata’

Pakistan High Commission staffer has been given 24 hrs to leave India. On Sunday, Punjab cops arrested 2 Malerkotla residents who were recruited by him to leak sensitive information.

Pakistan High Commission official in Delhi named in FIR for seeking Indian defence info, 2 arrested for spying

Arrests made in Punjab. One of the accused said to have received Rs 30,000 in 2 UPI transactions from Pakistani official. Police examining applicability of diplomatic immunity in the case.

As India downgrades diplomatic ties with Pakistan, here’s how their foreign missions are staffed

India’s decision to expel the three defence advisers and the five support staff has essentially shut the entire defence wing of the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi.

Pakistan issues NOTAM for Arabian Sea, puts its military on alert after India’s first reaction to Pahalgam

India has reviewed the security situation & directed all forces to maintain high vigil, while resolving to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice & their sponsors held to account.

A ‘witch-hunt’, Pakistani politics and row over money — The Broadsheet saga

In episode 662 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta breaks down the story of bribery, intrigue, back-stabbing and a mysterious death surrounding a little known private company.

2006 batch IFS officer Suresh Kumar appointed as India’s Charge d’Affaires to Pakistan

Kumar has worked as deputy secretary at the Pakistan desk in the Ministry of External Affairs and is expected to take up the assignment in Islamabad shortly.

NIA files chargesheet against suspended J&K DSP Davinder Singh, 5 others in terror case

Singh, who was arrested in January 2020, is alleged to have established contact with officials of Pakistan High Commission through secure social media platforms, say officials.

India asks Pakistan High Commission to reduce staff strength to half within a week

India says Pakistan diplomats’ behaviour an ‘intrinsic element of a larger policy of supporting cross-border violence and terrorism’.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.