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89-year-old partition survivor sells Pakistan flags to survive, recalls horrors of migration

  • Noor Jahan was a child when she witnessed the horrors of partition and migrated to newly formed Pakistan
  • 15 million Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs swapped countries in an upheaval that cost over one million lives
By KHURSHID AHMED    ·
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‘Lost Migrations’: Pakistani-Indian animation series spotlights partition memories 75 years on

By BURAQ SHABBIR ·
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Separated from brother in 1947, Indian man gets Pakistani visa after Arab News coverage

By Sanjay Kumar ·

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