Pak rejects Indian claims on diplomats detention.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan yesterday rejected Indian claims regarding the Indian diplomats briefly detained by the Pakistani authorities.

A Foreign Ministry statement said Pakistan categorically 'rejects Indian MEA's (Ministry of External Affairs) statement on the involvement of Indian High Commission officials in 'hit-and-run' incident and possession of fake currency.'

Pakistan, it said, 'categorically rejects the irresponsible statement and baseless allegations made by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in the matter relating to the involvement of Indian High Commission's officials in 'hit-and-run' incident and possession of fake currency.

The MEA's statement is a reprehensible attempt to distort facts and deny the culpability of these officials in criminal offences, the statement said.

Earlier, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs issued a demarche to Pakistan's Charge d'affaires to India after two Indian officials working with Indian High Commission were detained.Two officials of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, Dwimu Brahma and Selvadas Paul, were over-speeding and crashed...