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The Government today summoned the Acting High Commissioner of Pakistan, Jalil Abbas Jilani, to convey India's anger at the attempts by Pakistani authorities to hinder the movement of Indian diplomats in Islamabad, a spokesman of the Foreign Office told presspersons here. The Indian reaction follows reports from Islamabad that the Indian Charge d'Affaires, Sudhir Vyas, was prevented from moving freely in the Pakistani capital last Saturday. In a note handed over to Mr. Jilani today, the Joint-Secretary in charge of the Pakistan division in the Ministry of External Affairs, Arun Kumar Singh, strongly condemned the actions of the Pakistani authorities. "Such harassment is unprecedented and amounts to a clear attempt by Pakistan's intelligence services to thwart the CDA in the performance of his diplomatic duties," the spokesman added. India pointed out to Pakistan that the incident was not the first of its kind. It underlined that the Pakistani actions were in violation of the code of conduct on the treatment of diplomats, agreed to by the two nations in 1992. There were suggestions from the Pakistani side that the harassment of Mr. Vyas was in retaliation to similar treatment being meted out to Mr. Jilani in New Delhi. The Pakistan High Commission had handed in a note to the Ministry of External Affairs on January 7, protesting the intrusive surveillance on Mr. Jilani. Indian officials said the accusations in the note were verified and found inaccurate. Mr. Jilani was today was given an aide memoire that listed earlier incidents of harassment against Indian officials in the Islamabad mission.
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