India-Pakistan: Embassies to cut staff by half over spy row
By DW
27 June 2020 |
2:47 pm
India is expelling close to half of the staff at Pakistan’s embassy in New Delhi over espionage claims. Islamabad has reciprocated with the same orders for the Indian High Commission.
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