Pakistani-Indian families are in limbo as their countries close down their largest shared border crossing. The countries also cancelled visas for each other's citizens, in response to growing ethnic conflict between Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan, following a terrorist attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir that left 26 people dead.
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00:00Families are getting caught in the crossfire of rising tensions between Pakistan and India.
00:05After a terrorist attack, an Indian-controlled Kashmir left 26 people dead.
00:11In response, both countries have canceled visas for each other's citizens and shut down
00:16their largest shared border crossing.
00:18Getting a visa was already difficult, with long-standing religious and political tensions
00:23between Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
00:27Now cross-border families, trying to stay united, are feeling frustrated.
00:30No, it's not like that.
00:33I love Hindustan, I love Hindustan.
00:36But my family is here.
00:38It's not like Pakistan, we love Pakistan.
00:40We love Pakistan.
00:41But the things we don't want, we love Pakistan.
00:46We are our family in Pakistan, we are our family in India, so we don't love for any country.
00:54Pakistan's foreign ministry says it doesn't know how many Indian nationals are in the country,
00:59but that Sikh pilgrims would be allowed to stay.