Headlines - 1100 13th August 2017
- 7 years ago
KARACHI: Sitting in her Karachi home, Jamshed Jahan Ara looks straight into the camera as she explains in a trembling voice how her family fled India during Partition in 1947.
Just six years old when she boarded an overcrowded train bound for the newly-created Muslim state of Pakistan, Ara recalls watching armed Sikhs approach — then hearing her father tell her brother to kill the women of the family if the convoy was attacked.
Just six years old when she boarded an overcrowded train bound for the newly-created Muslim state of Pakistan, Ara recalls watching armed Sikhs approach — then hearing her father tell her brother to kill the women of the family if the convoy was attacked.