UP Woman Stopped At Attari Border While Trying To Return To Husband In Pak
New Delhi: An Indian woman was allegedly stopped at the Attari-Wagah border point in Punjab from crossing into Pakistan after the Centre ordered Pakistani nationals to leave in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. The woman, Sana, a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut who is married to a Pakistani citizen, was stopped because she had an Indian passport, while her children, a three-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter, were told to leave as they had Pakistani passports. The 30-year-old was among the short-term visa holders who were ordered to leave India by Sunday. Sana, who got married to Bilal, a doctor in Karachi, in 2020, had recently come to her hometown to meet her parents. Sana said she was told by the officials to leave the country when the Centre issued a notice, asking Pakistani nationals to return after 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed by Pakistan-linked terrorists in Pahalgam on April 22. Accompanied by her family members, she then left for the Attari-Wagah border with her children on Friday. …