Like India, Pakistan has asked defence attachés and their assistants to leave the country and has a limited diplomatic staff. Giving details of the decisions taken after the cabinet’s high-powered Committee on Security meeting, Indian Foreign Minister Vikram Misri said that it has been decided to close the Attari-Wagah border with immediate effect. The Modi government has not yet named Pakistan, but has said that the fabric of the Pahalgam attack came from across the border. In his press conference, Vikram Misri explained the decisions of the meeting, saying that visas granted to Pakistani citizens under the SAARC agreement are also being cancelled and Pakistani citizens currently in India have been ordered to leave the country within 48 hours. The foreign secretary’s news conference was held after the cabinet committee meeting and journalists were told that they would not be able to ask questions after the foreign secretary’s statement. After the trade relations between Pakistan and India were severed due to the tension between the two countries after the Pahalgam attack, both countries will have to bear trade losses.
However, it should be noted that the bilateral trade between the two countries was not as much as before, which was due to the tension between the two countries in the past. There was very little trade between the two, only a few products were traded. Zubair Motiwala, former chief executive of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan, the government agency responsible for foreign trade in Pakistan, told BBC Urdu that the trade relations between Pakistan and India are nothing special. He said that there was nothing special about going from Pakistan to India.