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India Enforces Visa Revocations as Cross-Border Fallout from Pahalgam Attack Deepens

Hundreds of Pakistani nationals leave India as the exit deadline ends, while investigations into the April 22 terror attack intensify.

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A BSF jawan checks documents of Pakistani nationals as they arrive at the Integrated Check Post at the Attari-Wagah border.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said that a country will not sit quietly if terrorists enter that nation and kill innocent people.
Pakistani citizen Sarita Kanwer consoles her mother, Priya Kanwer, who is an Indian citizen and who couldn't accompany Sarita and her father, as they prepare to leave India after India revoked visas issued to Pakistani citizens.

Overview

  • The April 27 deadline for Pakistani nationals with short-term visas to exit India has passed, with 537 individuals leaving through the Attari-Wagah border in the past four days.
  • The National Investigation Agency (NIA) formally took over the Pahalgam terror attack probe, deploying teams to collect evidence and question eyewitnesses.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed a decisive response against the perpetrators of the Pahalgam attack, which killed 26 people, mostly tourists, in Jammu and Kashmir.
  • Cross-border families and weddings have been disrupted, with many Pakistani nationals forced to leave India, leading to tearful farewells and separations at the border.
  • India has implemented a raft of retaliatory measures, including suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, revoking visas, and closing the Attari-Wagah land route, escalating tensions with Pakistan.