Reuters International

By Tommy Wilkes and Amjad Ali

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - India and Pakistan on Thursday announced they would each expel one of the other's diplomats amid growing tension between the nuclear-armed arch-foes over the disputed region of Kashmir. India on Friday called Pakistan’s decision to expel an official from its mission in Islamabad as a step without “justification.” The official response came a day after Pakistan expelled an Indian official, as India declared a staffer in Pakistan High Commission persona non grata. Indian and Pakistani troops face off against each other along the de facto border in divided Kashmir - a region they both claim in full but control in part - and have exchanged fire several times this week in cross-border shelling.
India and Pakistan each expel a diplomat from the other country as tensions grow over Kashmir.