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.