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Migrants to Pakistan recount displays of violence, interfaith harmony during India’s partition

  • Britain carving out new nations by splitting United India into two triggered mass sectarian migration in both directions
  • About 15 million people changed countries, mainly based on religion, and more than a million were killed in religious riots 
By NAIMAT KHAN ·
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89-year-old partition survivor sells Pakistan flags to survive, recalls horrors of migration

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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