School activities at the Pakistan High Commission in India have been suspended due to low enrollment level, the Foreign Office said on Monday.

“The High Commission School was never open to the public,” FO spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told Aaj News. “The needs of the children of the High Commission staff were met.”

The number of children decreased due to the decrease in the number of High Commission staff, she said, and added that the staff of the High Commission was reduced by half in June 2020.

Earlier, an Indian journalist tweeted that the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi has shut their school due to an “economic crisis” in the country.

“They had no funds to pay teachers and school staff. [The] salary [was] pending since last three years,” said AdityaRajKaul.

“[The] PHC was approaching Pakistan MoFA but Pakistan Govt rejected all requests. More Pakistan missions abroad to face similar situation soon due to fund crunch and financial crisis in Pakistan.”

Relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours have been fraught for years and they have fought three wars, two of them over the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir, which they both claim in full but rule in part.