A very emotional incident from partition

[Areesh]

Very emotional incident.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

We all moved on.

 

[Hyde]

Harbans Kaur story

Very emotional incident.

What a sad and inspirational story
Thanks a lot for sharing here brother

 

[Karachiite]

What is he saying, I can't understand Punjabi ?

 

[flameboard]

What is he saying, I can't understand Punjabi ?

Pretend hes speaking Urdu, make your mind think you can understand it. If your Urdu vocabulary is good you will understand it. For me everyone in a while a word would come up that I don't understand, I kept listening and I was able to make a meaning out of what was being said. Try it it really helps.

 

[Hyde]

What is he saying, I can't understand Punjabi ?

She said she met a "Sikh" women "Harbans Kaur" almost 90 years of age somewhere in Pakistan who had come from India. She asked me "are you from Muzaffarabad"? and he took her statement very lightly so he nodded saying as "Yes I do" and she asked her that if he has ever Met with two of her children's called "Qudrat Ullah & Karamat Ullah so he was shocked to hear that a Sikh lady having two childrens of Muslim name?

So he inquired further and she told her that before the partition her entire town became a victim of Indo-Pak pre-partition genocide and she was very young those days (probably 15-16 years of age) and she too got hurt in genocide.... and one "Muslim" man saw her underneath the dead bodies (or wherever) and brought her home and considered her as her "daughter". So she basically started living in that Muslim family for a while and after she was raised up further - Her father or guardian you can say got her married with a Muslim man (name mentioned in the video) and she was happily living with him until "Liaquat Ali Khan & Nehru" signed an agreement between India and Pakistan that the both countries will dispatch the women of each other's nations that were left behind after the partition of Pakistan-India. So a batch of Army came to her home as per the agreement and asked her to come along.

She explained that she has two young childrens aged 2 years and 9 months old and she does not want to return. But the army told her to come to the police station and sign a piece of document so that she could stay in the country but as per her - when she reached the police station - they never let her come back home and dispatched her to India forcefully.

And now she was almost 90 years of age when she returned to Pakistan and looking for her childrens. Her only wish/desire was to see her childrens before she dies and by chance she met with this singer (Jassi Lailpuri) of Pakistan and told her the entire story. So after hearing this inspirational story Jassi decided to find her Husband and childrens (if any of them is still alive) so he went to the local area mentioned by her and started looking for her family and finally he went to a shop where he inquired about them and they told him that her husband is dead now but both of her childrens are still alive! - and told the same name to him.

In the meanwhile she had departed back to India and couldn't meet her childrens. So this singer "Jassi" contacted the Government of Pakistan and they made some arrangements of this women's return and she finally came back to Pakistan once again and met her childrens....

Thats a 10 minutes video that I explained everything in few paragraphs only - you can watch the video to know more - i deliberately left part of this story to curb the length of my post

 

[compak]

Tears rolling from my eyes, there will be million stories like this on both sides.

 

[Last Hope]

Made me cry!
Thanks for sharing!

 

[Areesh]

What a sad and inspirational story
Thanks a lot for sharing here brother

Indeed Zaki it is a inspirational and emotional story. It took her more the 58 years to meet her children which she left at the age of 2 years and 9 months. 58 years are too much for a mother.

 

[StingRoy]

Don't know how many others are still looking for their beloved across both sides of the border. Truly inspiring and heart wrenching story.

 

[KS]

Indeed Zaki it is a inspirational and emotional story. It took her more the 58 years to meet her children which she left at the age of 2 years and 9 months. 58 years are too much for a mother.

Imagine the mental agony she would have suffered all these years.

She should have been let to stay in Pakistan.

Atleast now GoP and GoI should allow her to live with her sons in her last years.That is the least apology both can do for separating the mother from her two sons.

 

[Areesh]

Imagine the mental agony she would have suffered all these years.

She should have been let to stay in Pakistan.

Atleast now GoP and GoI should allow her to live with her sons in her last years.That is the least apology both can do for separating the mother from her two sons.

Yeah sure. She isn't going to be some kind of national security thread for India or Pakistan so some special permission should be given to her to spend her life with her children. The poor woman has already suffered a lot. It is ridiculous that a mother would have to apply for visa to meet her children.