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ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan on Friday lodged a "strong protest" with India over the detention and alleged beating up of an embassy official by police in New Delhi, a foreign office spokesman here said. Five Indian police officials beat up Nazakat Hussain, a member of the Pakistan High Commission staff in New Delhi, on Thursday, he said. Police alleged Hussain, who was riding a motorbike with diplomatic number plates, violated traffic rules, the spokesman said in a statement. "After being beaten up, he was taken to a police station and kept there in illegal detention for three hours." Hussain was released only after a High Commission official signed a bond for 5,000 Indian rupees, he said. Hussain was rushed to a hospital where "he is receiving treatment for serious bodily injuries," he said. The statement said a senior Indian High Commission official was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Friday and "a strong protest was lodged over this deplorable incident." The foreign office expressed "grave concern" over "repeated incidents of violence and harassment against members of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi." It asked the Indian government "to instruct its agencies to desist from such illegal acts," the spokesman said. India and Pakistan accuse each other of violating international convention on diplomatic norms and routinely expel each other's embassy staff for spying. The mutually hostile neighbors have fought three wars since independence in 1947, two of them on a lingering dispute over the Himalayan state of Kashmir. |
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