Pakistan summons Indian envoy over "threatening phone call"

Pakistan on Monday summoned a senior Indian diplomat to the foreign ministry and asked him to investigate a "threatening phone call" from India on Friday.

Officials earlier said that an unknown man issued threats by the phone from India to blow the Governor House in the southern port city of Karachi.

Indian officials have not yet commented on the reported call.

The caller had reportedly said that a bomb had been planted in the Governor House to blow it up.

Section of the media had reported that the Bomb Disposal Unit's members rushed to the Governor House after the call, searched the building and the surrounding areas but found no explosive device.

"The Indian Deputy High Commissioner was called in and was informed of the threatening phone call received in the Governor House, Karachi, from New Delhi on October 23 2015," the foreign ministry said.

"Details of the call were also shared with him. It was requested that Government of India may have the matter investigated and share results with Pakistan at the earliest," a foreign ministry statement said.

Meanwhile Pakistan on Monday repatriated a deaf and mute Indian girl who strayed into Pakistan nearly 13 years ago, the foreign ministry spokesman said.

She was warmly seen off at the Karachi airport by Pakistani and Indian officials as well as members of a welfare organization where she stayed for years.

"Indian national Geeta left Karachi for New Delhi today. Her return was facilitated by the government of Pakistan," the foreign ministry said.

The spokesman said Geeta was looked after by the world renowned philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and his family during her stay in Pakistan. Enditem