Srinagar, April 29 -- "I don't want to go back to Pakistan. Neither do my three children though they were born there. We have relatives across the border, but everything else here in Kashmir. All we want is Indian citizenship," says the Lahore native, who settled down in Sopore with her Kashmiri husband over a decade ago under the then state government's amnesty policy for former militants.

"The escalating tension between India and Pakistan after last week's Pahalgam terror attack has all of us worried. The uncertainty is the only topic of discussion at our homes for the past four days," she says, requesting anonymity.

She is among nearly 400 women who came to the Valley with their Kashmiri husbands after 2010 when the then chief minist...