Two 50-year-old siblings still play tit-for-tat.
For all of lnder Kumar Gujral´s overtures to Pakistan, it is still ludicrously difficult for Pakistanis to visit India, as Lahori journalist c found out. He concedes that it might be equally frustrating for Indians headed the other way.
On or about 12 August 1947, my grandparents and two young aunts went missing in the violence that struck Jalandhar in Punjab, India. My father, Divisional Engineer for the North Western Railway, and my doctor uncle were then both in Delhi.
A month later, by when the rest of the family had moved to Pakistan, my uncle (still working in Delhi) went with a foreign mission to Jalandhar where disease had broken out because of the thousands of rotting corpses. There he met the refugee commissioner to ask of the fate of the Muslims who remained in the city. There were none, he was told. They were either all dead or had immigrated to Pakistan.