Families suffer as Indo-Pak border shuts

Indian business owner Rishi Kumar Jisrani has spent two days watching a messy scramble of people haul suitcases and drop loved ones at the border with Pakistan before it shuts, with dwindling hopes his family will be allowed across.

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As relations between Islamabad and New Delhi quickly deteriorate, the neighbouring nations have scrapped visas and expelled each other's citizens, giving people just days to get to the frontier before it closes.

Jisrani, 39, fears it is already too late, with his Pakistani wife and their two children now stuck on the other side.

"They have told her that they can allow my children to come back, since they are Indian passport holders, but not her," he said, adding that he has received no advice from the Indian side.

"How can we separate a mother from her children?"