The Pakistani authorities imposed focused restrictions on the Indian Excessive Fee in Islamabad since June 2025, in obvious retaliation to India’s navy offensive, ‘Operation Sindoor.’ The transfer included halting the provision of newspapers to the mission.
Pakistani authorities had issued clear directions to native newspaper distributors and distributors to not ship any newspapers or printed publications to the Indian diplomatic mission, say MEA sources.
Consequently, the Indian diplomats stationed in Islamabad had been lower off from accessing Pakistani print media. So that they discovered it tough to remain knowledgeable about native information, present affairs, and developments inside Pakistan via print sources. This restriction was seen as a deliberate try by Pakistan to curb the move of data to Indian officers in order to forestall them from being up to date on what was occurring then. This was, say analysts, represented a part of a broader sample of retaliatory actions following India’s navy response.
MEA sources condemned this motion as “deliberate, premeditated, and in breach of the Vienna Conference on Diplomatic Relations,” which ensures the safe and dignified operation of diplomatic missions worldwide. Officers termed Pakistan’s measures a continuation of its long-standing coverage of utilizing unconventional and non-diplomatic ways to use stress on Indian diplomats moderately than interact in constructive dialogue.
This improvement adopted the suspension of the Indus Water Treaty and got here within the aftermath of India’s ‘Operation Sindoor,’ which inflicted vital injury on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan. MEA sources characterised Pakistan’s actions, like stopping newspapers to Indian Excessive Fee officers, as “petty retaliation” pushed by frustration over its failures to counter India on the battlefield.
Diplomatic affairs consultants are of the view that the restrictions, like stopping newspapers, mark a brand new low in India-Pakistan relations, with Islamabad escalating tensions by disrupting fundamental providers to Indian diplomats in its capital.