NEW DELHI, Jan 7: Conjuring images of Pakistani visitors to India as potential terrorists, Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishan Advani said on Tuesday that everyone from across the border who may have exhausted their visas must be thrown out immediately.

“Around 11,500 Pakistanis have come into the country with regular papers and passports, but have overstayed. There is no reason why our states should be soft on them,” Advani said, inaugurating a conference of senior state officials and police chiefs in New Delhi.

He also asked the police officials to present figures of how many illegally overstaying Pakistanis were traced last year.—Jay Enn

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