Pakistan High Commission staff expelled from espionage, linked to case leaks from the Army movement

“Pakistan rejects this claim altogether,” the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

In the ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEA) declares officials of the Pakistan High CommissionCharacter non grata(PNG) expel him for espionage. The decision on the official, not named by both parties, was transmitted to Pakistan for allegations D’Affaires saad Warraich, who was issued a demarche, requiring staff to leave India within 24 hours.

“The Indian government announced that a Pakistani official, working on the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi, does not meet activities that are inconsistent with his official status in India,” the MEA statement said.

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Sources told Hindu The deported high commissioner staff and two people arrested in Punjab police in Punjab were arrested on the weekend for “leaking sensitive information about the Indian Army movement” to Pakistan. The case is important since May 7, with large-scale troop movements and cross-border military operations, including the Indian Army and Air Force, as well as the accumulation of troops along the border.

In a statement on Sunday (May 11, 2025), police in Malekotra said the two defendants had been providing information to “Pakistan processors” and were paid through online transactions in exchange. Police said the network of other local operators associated with them was also identified, with the first information report (FIR) registered in the case.

“This operation marks the removal of the cross-border spy network and strengthens our commitment to national security. Further investigations will be conducted under established agreements, focusing on tracking financial trajectories and identifying other operators and contacts in the network,” the Punjab police said in a statement.

Pakistan did not respond to the announcement, nor did it know whether it would retaliate or attempt to reflect the action. After the Pahalgam terrorist attack on April 22, India expelled the defense lawyers of the Pakistan High Commission and reduced the allowed staff strength from 55 to 30, Pakistan did the same, withdrawing diplomats from the Islamabad Indian High Commissioner and reducing the mission.

Despite a ceasefire since Saturday (May 10, 2025), the link between Delhi and Islamabad is still picky. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry issued a sharp statement on Tuesday (May 13, 2025) in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech to the country on Monday (May 12, 2025), Mr. Modi saw Operation Sindor as a major success and said that off-road attacks in India were the new normal of terrorist attacks and designated it as a terrorist attack, an act of terrorist attacks. It comes from India.

“Pakistan rejects this claim altogether,” the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said in a statement. He added that the norms would be the UN Charter and said Pakistan would “closely monitor India’s actions and behavior in this regard”, calling on the international community to do the same.

The MEA responded to the statement, saying that Pakistan “cultivated terrorism on an industrial scale” and could not “escape the consequences of its actions.” “There is a new normal now. The sooner Pakistan gets used to it,” said the ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal in response to a question.