Summary Indian media has claimed that arrests were made as the employees possess some sensitive information.
NEW DELHI (Dunya News) – Pakistani High Commission officer Mahmood Akhtar and four other employees have been arrested by the Indian police in New Delhi on Thursday.
Indian media has claimed that the arrests were made as the employees possess some sensitive information.
On the other hand, Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit has also been summoned by the Indian foreign ministry.
He has already been barred from taking part in any ceremonies and conveying any address.
Tensions between India and Pakistan have soared since grenade-hurling militants raided India’s Uri army base near the de-facto border dividing Kashmir on September 18 in the worst such attack for years, for which India wrongly blamed Pakistan.
Following the terror attack, a false claim of India was refuted internationally of carrying out a surgical strike in Pakistani territory.
Since then India has numerous times violated ceasefire violations and caused major loss of life.
At least two Pakistani soldiers were martyred in unprovoked shelling by Indian troops across the LoC on September 29.
At least five people sustained injuries as Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) on Thursday resorted to indiscriminate firing at the Sialkot border villages in Harpal Sector.
Three civilians were martyred while eight injured after Indian forces opened unprovoked fire across the Working Boundary and Line of Control (LoC) in Charpar Sector on Wednesday taking the toll to seven.
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) reported that the number of fatalities has hit seven within two days over Indian aggression at the LoC.
Ban on Pakistani artists
Following the September raid, the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association, which represents a number of Hindi film industry employees, passed a motion banning Pakistani artists until relations improve.
Pakistan’s Film Exhibitors and Distributors group responded by suspending the screening of all Indian films "until normalcy returns".
Organisers of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival dropped classic 1959 Pakistani movie "Jago Hua Savera" ("The Day Shall Dawn") from its programme following a complaint from an Indian NGO.
Pakistan’s state-run media authority fired another salvo, banning all Indian content from television and radio networks. It threatened to suspend the licences of any station caught flouting the ban, which came into force Friday.
Earlier this month, India’s Cinema Owners and Exhibitors Association (COEA) said it would not show any films featuring Pakistani artists at single screen cinemas across four states.
