A Delhi resident, Mohammad Shariq, whose sisters are married in Karachi, said the Pakistani side was not allowing them to cross.“I came here with my sisters early in the morning. The border opens at 10 am. When we asked the officials, they said our government has given the order and we are sending people from here, but Pakistani authorities are not allowing them to cross over,” he said.The Attari border has witnessed a heavy rush in recent days following the Union Government’s order directing all Pakistani nationals on short-term visas to leave India in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.Over the past week, 911 Pakistani nationals have departed India, including 125 who left on Wednesday.Sources said many of the Pakistani nationals were escorted by local police. Murawat Hussain Shah, who came from Rajouri, accompanied his cousins Saida Zameer Fatima and Saida Saheer Fatima, both of whom are being deported.He said, “My cousins came to India in 1983 on valid visas after the death of their father and brother. Now, they have nobody in Pakistan. Everything they have is in India; they do not want to leave.”In another case, 16 Pakistani Hindu nationals who had come to Haridwar for post-death rituals of their elders failed to reach the border on time after their taxi broke down.A Pakistani woman from Karachi, whose four-year-old child holds an Indian passport, also found herself in a fix. “Either I should be allowed to stay here with my child or let my son accompany me to Pakistan,” she said.
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