Overview

• Pakistani authorities have halted gas pipeline flow and instructed local vendors to refuse cooking fuel deliveries to the Indian High Commission, forcing staff into costly private markets.
• Deliveries of bottled drinking water have been blocked after vendors were ordered not to supply mineral water to Indian diplomats in Islamabad.
• Newspaper vendors have been directed to stop distributing print publications to Indian diplomatic premises, isolating diplomats from local news sources.
• Officials report intensified surveillance of Indian diplomatic residences and offices, including unauthorised entries that they attribute to ISI-orchestrated intimidation.
• India views the curbs as retaliation for Operation Sindoor and disputes over the Indus Water Treaty and has reciprocated by halting newspaper deliveries to Pakistani diplomats in New Delhi.