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Bid to vitiate atmosphere: Pak

Islamabad, January 22
Pakistan tonight described the expulsion of four of its High Commission officials by India as “an attempt to vitiate” the atmosphere and said it would decide on retaliatory action at an appropriate time.

As India kept up its protests over the treatment meted out to its Charge d’Affaires in Islamabad Sudhir Vyas, a car carrying Pakistani intelligence officials came “dangerously close” to the vehicle of the top Indian diplomat for the third successive day today.

Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan said, “It is highly unfortunate that India expelled four of his high commission staffers in Delhi.” PTI