SOURCE: TIMES NOW
In a major development in the espionage racket, the Delhi Police Special Cell on Thursday interrogated two employees of the Indian Railways who had allegedly met two Pakistan High Commission officials who were expelled from India for spying. Sources in the Special Cell said that the two railway employees had met the Pakistan embassy staffers, who pretended to be Indians, outside the Northern Railway headquarters at Baroda House.
Abid Hussain, one of the Pakistanis, posed as Gautam, the brother of a media professional, in order to establish contact with the two railway men. They were trying to extract details of the movement of Indian Army through the national carrier. Hussain, in order to gain confidence of the railways workers, lied that he wanted information about movement of trains for his brother who was apparently working on a story on the Indian Railways; he even offered money for the information, news agency IANS reported.
Pakistan rejected India’s allegations of sending spies as “false and baseless” and said it “reacted with restraint” to prevent an escalation with New Delhi on the matter.
The response came India on Sunday declared the two Pakistan embassy officials persona non grata and ordered them to exit the country within 24 hours.
Addressing the media, Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said that her country had no intention to escalate the situation
She accused India of violating diplomatic protocol and said that “New Delhi’s continued belligerent attitude is a threat to regional peace and security.”
“Pakistan has strongly rejected the baseless Indian allegations and condemned Indian tactics which are in clear violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations as well as norms of diplomatic conduct,” Farooqui reportedly said, according to news agency PTI.
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