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New Delhi, March 14 (TNS): Amid fresh incidents of alleged harassment of Pakistani diplomats in Delhi, Pakistan\u2019s High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood called for \u201csober reflection\u201d and a careful handling of the situation, Indian media reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a moment for sober reflection on the state of the bilateral relationship. It is too important to be allowed to drift. There is a need to handle matters with wisdom and thoughtfulness,\u201d High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood told\u00a0The Hindu<\/em>\u00a0in response to a question about the latest incident in Delhi, which led to the Pakistan Foreign Ministry issuing a demarche to Indian Deputy High Commissioner J.P. Singh on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n The protest came after Pakistan\u2019s High Commission released a video taken by one of their embassy officials that appeared to show their diplomatic car being tailed by men on motorcycles while a car in front blocked their way.<\/p>\n According to Pakistani diplomats, the incident occurred on Tuesday and was the 23rd such incident in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile heavy surveillance of diplomats has always been a cause for concern, the scale, intensity and frequency of the harassment of embassy vehicles, personnel and families in the last few weeks is very worrying,\u201d said a diplomatic source.<\/p>\n Indian MEA did not respond to requests for a reaction to the latest allegations by Pakistan.<\/p>\n However, Indian officials who asked not to be named, maintained that the incidents mirror the situation in Islamabad, where matters came to a head last month.<\/p>\n Courtesy: The Hindu<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Delhi, March 14 (TNS): Amid fresh incidents of alleged harassment of Pakistani diplomats in Delhi, Pakistan\u2019s High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood called for \u201csober reflection\u201d and a careful handling of the situation, Indian media reported on Wednesday. \u201cThis is a moment for sober reflection on the state of the bilateral relationship. It is too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56489,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56485\/revisions\/56489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}