Pakistan Considers Calling Back Four of Its Officials From India

The names of the four officials were made public after Indian officials released a recorded statement to media. (Photo: PTI)

• Pakistan is considering pulling out from India four of its officials posted in the High Commission in New Delhi, days after Indian authorities declared one diplomat persona non grata.
• The names of the four officials were made public after Indian officials released to media a recorded statement of High Commission staffer Mehm­ood Akhtar, who was expelled from India after being declared persona non grata.
• Akhtar narrated how he was "manhandled and picked" from outside a zoo and taken to a Delhi police station, where he was “coerced into recording a statement” before being expelled from the country.

(With inputs from IANS.)