Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi warned neighboring India on Wednesday to refrain from launching any attacks on his country, saying that Islamabad would respond with full force if New Delhi embarks on "any misadventure."

The minister said that India was plotting an attack on Pakistan, allegedly to divert attention from a recent deadly clash between India and China in the Galwan Valley that has resulted in casualties. 

The foreign minister's latest remarks on India came one day after he condemned India's order to reduce the staff at Pakistan's diplomatic mission in New Delhi by half within a week. 

The Indian foreign ministry said it will do the same in Islamabad after two Indian Embassy employees were seized at gunpoint in Pakistan.

Earlier, Pakistani authorities had said the two people, identified as drivers for the Indian high commission, were arrested when they hit a pedestrian and then fled. They said police searched the vehicle and found counterfeit currency inside.

The two were released to the high commission and then were transported to the border, where they crossed into India, according to the authorities.

The reciprocal action comes amid heightened tensions between the two south Asian countries over the Kashmir territorial dispute.

In a statement issued Tuesday, India's Ministry of External Affairs alleged that officials at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi have been in violation of international conventions on diplomatic relations.

Minister Qureshi said that India was trying to find an excuse for operation against Pakistan.

Pakistani and Indian forces have been on maximum alert since last year, when Pakistan claimed it shot down two Indian warplanes in the disputed region of Kashmir and captured a pilot in response to an airstrike by Indian aircraft targeting militants inside Pakistan.

The latest round of hostility began when India expelled two Pakistani diplomats on May 31, after they were held for alleged spying, claims Islamabad said were "baseless".

Last month Indian police released a pigeon belonging to a Pakistani fisherman after an investigation found that the bird, which had flown across the contentious border between the two countries, was not engaged in spying.

(With input from agencies)