The State - News from Dec. 1, 1988
Indian security agents arrested Pakistan’s military attache in New Delhi on espionage charges after catching him accepting a sensitive defense document from an Indian contact, an Indian government spokesman said. An official said agents had collected evidence over several months of spying by Brig. Zahir ul-Islam Abassi, who had been a Pakistani military attache in New Delhi for two years. India and Pakistan have fought three wars since 1948, and relations remain troubled by conflicting claims to the Himalayan region of Kashmir.
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