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By B. Muralidhar Reddy
In a protest note to the Pakistan Foreign Office, the Indian High Commission detailed the blockade and pointed out that it was in gross violation of the basic norms of diplomatic behaviour. Though relations between India and Pakistan have been strained particularly since the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack, the whole of 2002 was relatively free of any incident involving the diplomatic community of both countries. The Indian mission here is at a loss to understand the provocation for the action of the intelligence men in plainclothes, for, according to them, there is no such incident in New Delhi involving any staffer of the Pakistan mission, leave alone the Charge d'Affaires. According to the protest note, the vehicle of the Charge d'Affaires was blocked before his residence and forcibly prevented from leaving on two occasions when he and his wife were going to attend official diplomatic engagements at the Malaysian and Nepalese embassies. When the mission car, flying the national flag, was able to leave the residence, it was forcibly stopped and boxed in by four vehicles and two motorcycles repeatedly on the main roads of the town, both on the outward and return journeys. The flag car was kept boxed in with the Charge d'Affaires and his wife inside for up to 45 minutes at a time, even at 11 p.m. Mr. Vyas and his wife were thus prevented from performing their diplomatic functions, arriving more than an hour late for each engagement. On the return journeys too, intelligence personnel attempted to block the entrance gate of his residence by parking a vehicle in front of it, preventing the entry of the flag car carrying the Charge d'Affaires and his wife. ``Such a harassment is unprecedented in nature and amounts to a clear attempt on the part of Pakistani intelligence agencies to thwart the Charge d'Affaires in the conduct of his diplomatic duties, besides displaying a lack of normal courtesy to the national flag of this accredited mission. This represents a grave violation of the basic norms of diplomatic behaviour codified in international and bilateral conventions. This mission condemns such an action and requests the Ministry to direct the Pakistani intelligence agencies responsible to stop this harassment forthwith,'' the note said.
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