Indo-Pak couples torn apart as deportations intensify

A wave of deportations at the Attari-Wagah border is tearing apart Indo-Pak families.

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00:00This work can be done with children. We can't do this work.

00:03That's in the National Anjan Tambir whose wife, a Pakistani national, was deported back to Pakistan via the Aitari-Waga border on April 30,

00:10while he and their child remained in India.

00:13Please, my business gave me back.

00:15She was pregnant. If she was pregnant after 3 months, she would have been pregnant.

00:20It would have been difficult for her entire life.

00:22She is a Pakistani national. She is now 5 years old.

00:24After 7 years, we had a citizen after 7 years.

00:26We had to get a citizen.

00:27We had to get all the Pakistanis back to our children.

00:29And my child is back.

00:31My child is crying. What do I do?

00:33While over 800 Pakistani national had already left voluntarily between April 24 and April 30,

00:39several families chose to stay, citing marriages, local ties and generations of roots in India.

00:45But with Bara Mullah police stepping up enforcement, the intern government began deportations.

00:49The only one has done the punishment and the other is taking the punishment.

00:53That's why we are sending the punishment.

00:56We are not being punished.

00:57They have given the punishment.

00:59You give them the punishment.

01:00Parveen Akhtar, a Pakistani national who had been living in India for over 40 years,

01:04was deported along with her daughter-in-law, Bhavzala,

01:06while at the Aitari border amid rising tensions.

01:09I have been 17 years old. Where are I going?

01:12My hands are laying down.

01:14My hands are laying down.

01:16Bhavzala, who got married in India's Bara Mullah three years ago,

01:19but is currently a Pakistani national,

01:21was also among the 25 to 30 individuals brought by Bara Mullah police to the Aitari border for deputation.

01:27Our families are here. We are married. We are here. We are here.

01:31We are here. We are here. We are here.

01:33Our grandparents are here.

01:35In a relief for Pakistani nationals staying in India,

01:38the centre allowed them to return via the Aitari-Vaga border until further orders.

01:42But Pakistan was yet to open the border gates.

01:45The latest Home Ministry order modified its previous direction

01:48that said that the border would be closed on April 30.