India, April 25 -- Following the Tuesday's terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam which has deteriorated India-Pakistan relations, a much-awaited cross-border wedding has been stalled, dashing the hopes of a family from Rajasthan's Barmer district. The wedding, scheduled for April 30, was disrupted when the baraat (wedding procession) reached the Wagah-Attari border on Thursday and was denied entry into Pakistan, forcing them to return home.

25-year-old groom, Shaintan Singh, a resident of Rajasthan's Barmer, was engaged four years ago to Kesar Kanwar, a resident of Amarkot district in Pakistan's Sindh province. The engagement was arranged according to traditional customs, common in border regions where communities on both side...