ATTARI: Pakistan refused Thursday to open the gates at Wagah border post across Punjab’s Attari, leaving dozens of its people and those deported from India stranded in the no-man’s-land of diplomatic deadlock.
No Pakistani nationals were allowed to cross the border, Indian officials said, though Afghan trucks were granted entry into India. Pakistan’s foreign ministry cited “brotherly relations” with Afghanistan for the exception, highlighting the selective nature of the border movement.
Pakistan had allowed its nationals to return until April 29, but by Thursday, the gates remained closed, deepening a standoff that has left families torn between two countries – forced to bear the consequences of a visa suspension following the April 20 terrorist attack in Pahalgam.