Amritsar, April 26 -- Several Indian women married to Pakistan nationals but holding Indian passports were left stranded at the Attari-Wagah border on Friday as Border Security Force (BSF) officials barred them from crossing the border to return to their husbands and in-laws.

This even as 287 Pakistan nationals left India through the border after the Centre set a 48-hour deadline for them to leave the country in wake of the Pahalgam terror attack. As many as 191 Indians also returned from the neighbouring country.

Among the stranded was Washin Jahangir, 38, who had come to India with her sister and two nieces about a month ago for asthma treatment. While Jahangir and her sister, whose in-laws stay in Karachi, could not cross the border,...