NEW DELHI: When 76-year-old Sikka Khan learnt he had been granted a visa to Pakistan to spend two months with his elder brother, he burst in tears, and hugged the Pakistani Embassy official in New Delhi who handed him the stamped passport. Sikka and his 84-year-old brother, Sadiq Khan, had been separated since British India split into two independent states India and
PHULEWALA: In August 1947, as British India was being partitioned into two independent states, Sikka Khan’s father and elder brother, Sadiq, left Phulewala village which became the Indian part of Punjab and returned to their paternal village of Bogran, which became part of Pakistan. Just two-years-old at the time, Sikka was too young to go and stayed behind in India with
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