An official said around 272 Pakistani nationals left India on Friday and Saturday through the Attari-Wagah border point, and a few hundred more exited on Sunday.

Pakistan's longest-serving former Prime Minister has urged his brother Shehbaz Sharif to dial down tensions with India in the wake of the deadly Pahalgam terror attack. Nawaz Sharif reportedly told Shehbaz to not take aggressive position against India and resolve the matter diplomatically.

Asif said Pakistan was on high alert and that it would only use its arsenal of nuclear weapons if "there is a direct threat to our existence".