'How can I survive without my husband if deported?'

THE Centre's decision to revoke all visas issued to Pakistani nationals has come as a bolt from the blue for them.

- RAMASHANKAR @ Patna

"I would rather die on the land where I was born (India) than return to Pakistan," so says a visibly despondent Nusarat Firoz (62).

Firoz — who married a Pakistani national named Firoz Akhtar in 1992 and moved across the border — returned to India with their three children after the death of her husband in 2012. Back in India, she and her children have spent more than a decade living with her brothers in Bihar's Patna.