India, April 29 -- The Odisha government is waiting for a fresh directive from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on deportation of Pakistani nationals staying in India as the Centre is yet to take a final decision on the modalities, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Odisha police had served notice on 12 Pakistani nationals, many of them women, staying in Odisha in the wake of the Centre's directive following the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.

Since then, a 52-year-old woman staying in Bhubaneswar has been deported as her visa had expired. The woman, Nagma Yusuf, left Odisha on Sunday after receiving an official 'leave India' notice. She had been staying in Bhubaneswar since 2008 after her marriage to Mohammed Nizam Uddin, but she...