LEAVE IMMEDIATELY
The slew of tit-for-tat measures announced by the Pakistan government includes expelling Indian diplomats and cancelling visas for Indian nationals with the exception of Sikh pilgrims.
Islamabad said Indian military advisers were “persona non grata” and were “directed to leave Pakistan immediately”.
The main Wagah border crossing in Punjab will close on both sides.
Pakistan also warned that it would consider any attempt by India to stop the supply of water from the Indus River an “act of war”.
Indian police say the three gunmen are members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, designated by the United Nations as a terrorist organisation.
Police have offered a two million rupee (US$23,500) bounty for information leading to each man’s arrest.
While the measures taken so far are largely symbolic, some fear New Delhi’s diplomatic moves may just be an opening salvo – with the potential risk of military action between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
In 2019, a suicide attack killed 41 Indian troops in Kashmir and triggered Indian air strikes inside Pakistan.
At the Attari-Wagah frontier, Pakistani citizens had already started to leave.
“We just want to go home,” said an exhausted-looking Mehnaz Begum, a Pakistani businessman from Karachi, as he left India.
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