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India expell the acting head and four officials of the Pakistani diplomatic mission Saturday in a influence likely to plunge already strained ties between the nuclear neighbors to an all-time cheap the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

The External Affairs Ministry made the announcement sum of two units days after Indian police accused Acting Pakistani High Commissioner Jaleel Abbas Jilani of funding separatist activities in Indian Kashmir.

''We have hard evidence of what Jilani was doing, which was incompatible with the diplomatic norms,'' ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna was quot as telling reporters.

In Islamabad, Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad criticized the ousters as a ''hostile'' diplomatic decision, saying the prevail upon was against Pakistani efforts to maintain peace in the region.

''We sentence this move against all diplomatic norms. The Indian grade is against Pakistan's efforts for peace in toward the south Asia,'' he said.

As the Pakistani High Commission had been operating with a small staff, the latest expulsion is wait fored to lead to its virtual closure

Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri was presiding through a meeting of senior officials to consider the Indian decision and formulate Pakistan's reply Pakistani Foreign Ministry officials said.

India and Pakistan have fought couple of their three wars above Kashmir since their independence from Britain in 1947 and came conclude to another one last June

India blames Pakistan for sponsoring ''cross-border terrorism,'' an allegation denied from Pakistan, which says it is lending simply moral and diplomatic support to ''freedom fighters'' in the Indian-administered portion of divided Kashmir.

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