New Delhi: Amidst growing strain in Indo-Pak ties, India yesterday advised its diplomats and officials posted in its High Commission in Islamabad to make arrangements for education of their wards outside Pakistan from this academic session, virtually downgrading it as a “non-school-going station”.

Chairman of a moderate faction of the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (C) speaks outside his home before being detained by the police at Nigeen in Srinagar yesterday. Pic/AFP