Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said all Pakistanis have been accounted for and arrangements are being made to deport the people whose visas have been revoked as per the Centre’s directives.State minister Yogesh Kadam on Saturday said 1,000 Pakistani nationals with short-term visas have been asked to leave India.Around 5,050 Pakistani citizens have been living in Maharashtra and most of them are on long-term visas, the officials said.The Bihar government said all Pakistani nationals, who had been to the state in the recent past, left well ahead of the April 27 deadline.In the southern state of Telangana, police chief Jitender cited official records to say that 208 Pakistani nationals were staying in the state, mostly in Hyderabad.Of these, 156 held long-term visas, 13 short-term visas and 39 were with the travel document for medical and business purposes.There were 104 Pakistani nationals in the southern coastal state of Kerala, of whom 99 were on long-term visas, according to the officials.The remaining five, who were on either tourist or medical visas, have left the country.Central India’s Madhya Pradesh had around 228 visiting Pakistani nationals, many of whom have already left the country, the officials said.Around 12 Pakistanis have been identified in Odisha and all of them have been asked to follow the deadline set for them to leave the country.Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said three Pakistani nationals, who were in the state on short-term visas, have been asked to leave.Seven Pakistanis were in Gujarat on short-term visas — five in Ahmedabad and one each in Bharuch and Vadodara.They have either left India or are leaving by Sunday, the officials said.Besides, 438 Pakistani nationals are in the western state on long-term visas and they include Hindus who have applied for Indian citizenship.In the north, Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police Prashant Kumar said on Saturday that the process of sending back all categories of Pakistani citizens who have been ordered to leave India has been completed.One Pakistani national is still in the state and he will depart for Pakistan on April 30, the DGP said.As many as 19 Pakistani nationals staying in Bihar with short-term visas have left the country.Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday called up the chief ministers of all states and asked them to ensure that no Pakistani stays in India beyond the deadline set for leaving the country.After Shah’s telephonic conversations with the chief ministers, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan held a video conference with the chief secretaries and asked them to ensure that all Pakistani nationals whose visas were revoked must leave India by the deadline fixed.The already strained relations between India and Pakistan nosedived further after the Pahalgam terror attack, with New Delhi announcing a raft of measures, including the cancellation of visas, against Islamabad, which hit back with a string of tit-for-tat measures.
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