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New Delhi ordering all Pakistani nationals living in India to leave within three days following the hard decisions taken by the government in the wake of the terrorist strike in Pahalgam, Kashmir on April 22, had led to the mixed families paying a heavy price for Islamabad's support for terrorism.

Children were separated from their parents, wives from husbands, the elderly from their moorings, and Pakistanis in hospital for vital treatments had to cut short their strips as the deportations began.

However, a few stories of hope have also emerged from the situation where the tears of desperate families have turned into smiles.

In a humanitarian gesture, the Andhra Pradesh government let a Pakistani family staying in Visakhapatnam continue staying in the state, till further notice is served to them to go back to Pakistan.

The India-Pakistan couple also informed the police that they had applied for their visa to be converted into a long-term visa, which was not processed yet.

Immediately acting on their plea, Bagchi contacted the higher-ups in the Forensics Regional Registrations Office (FRRO) in Hyderabad and got their visa temporarily extended till their son received medical treatment.

The city police commissioner Sankhabhadra Bagchi received a representation from a family, where the husband holds Pakistani nationality and his wife an Indian. She hails from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh and the couple had come for their son's medical treatment.

The move came at a time when the deadline for Pakistani citizens to leave India ended on Wednesday, April 30, after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 that had claimed 26 Indian lives.

Interestingly, the father and the older son are Pakistani citizens, whereas the mother and the younger son are the citizens of India in this case.

A family settled in Poonch, Jammu, leaving for Pakistan

In Delhi NCR, there are speculations about Seema Haider, the well-known Pakistan woman who came to India with her four children and married a local.

Her lawyer: AP Singh explained her status on a social media post: " When she was in Pakistan, her divorce happened. After the death of her father, she befriended Sachin...in Nepal, they got married as per Santana Dharma...after coming to India, she converted to Sanatana Dharma legally and then got married following all the rituals... their daughter's name is Meera...her documents are with ATS...Seema has never visited any places other than her in-laws' house and hospital...linking her to the Pahalgam incident is wrong..."

Seema Haider recently gave birth to her fifth child from her husband Sachin Meena.

As per Seema, the couple's social media posts are a big source of earnings for them.

From Jammu and Kashmir, a Pakistani national whose eight siblings (five sisters and three brothers) were sent to Attari from Mendhar in Poonch district for deportation to Pakistan, and turned out to be a police constable, has not been deported.

According to the Daily Excelsior Iftikhar Ali, a police constable posted in GRP Katra was born in Pakistan along with five sisters and three brothers though his parents belonged to village Salwa in Mendhar tehsil of Poonch district.

Iftikhar Ali spoke to local news channel before his deportation was stopped:

Despite the court's stay order, J&K police employee Iftikhar Ali from #Poonch had to go to #Pakistan with his 8 family members@dmjammuofficial @Divcomjammu @CM_JnK @OfficeOfLGJandK pic.twitter.com/fmMYBMkr8W

— Jammu Ladakh vision (@jammu_ladakh) April 30, 2025

His parents shifted to Pakistan in 1965 and all their children were born in Pakistan.

However, he has not been sent for deportation so far. His wife appealed to authorities to let him be there, for who would look after her children.

One of the two sisters who were sent from Rajouri had served the Social Welfare Department (SWD) as Supervisor.

Menal Khan, a Pakistani national who was recently married to the CRPF constable Munir Ahmed of Rabta, Jammu was sent back to Jammu from Attari-Wagah because of the court. She told the media before returning to Jammu that her husand is her first cousin and they were recently married.

Menal told a local portal:

CRPF soldier's Pak wife #Minal among 60 Pak women, children living in J&K #deported #JAMMU: In J&K in the aftermath of the #Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 people, mostly tourists dead, nearly sixty Pakistani women and their children were deported to Pakistan on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/cF3PZ9CLPo

— Jehlam Times (@JehlamTimes) April 30, 2025

Leaving for Pakistan has not helped these people as barring one child who was born in Pakistan, 10 persons sent from Poonch to Attari,nobody has been allowed by Pakistan to return to their country and they are held up at the border.

Similarly, out of eight persons sent from the Rajouri district to Attari, four have crossed over to Pakistan while the rest are still at the border.

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