Forty-one Pakistanis stranded in India after the border was closed as a precautionary measure to control the spread of coronavirus have returned to the country through the Attari-Wagah border.

According to a statement from the High Commission of Pakistan in Delhi, the citizens had gone to India on different visas "including visit, pilgrimage and medical and had been stuck in Agra, Delhi and parts of Haryana and Punjab".

There are still some 145 Pakistanis stuck in India, the statement added.

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