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‘Jugni’, the free-spirited Sikhni, dressed to kill in a peacock blue Punjabi suit, hair tied in a plait with a bright pink ‘parandi’ swaying with her ‘morni jaisi chal’.

Born and brought up in Nowshera Cantonment in Peshawar, I was 14 at the time of Partition. An important cantonment of British India, it had the Royal Air Force Centre and the Sikh Regimental Centre. The city was home to a small civilian population and was surrounded by Pakhtun villages. We were taug

The career of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the permanent president of the Muslim League, indicates a curious and ironic development from being ‘the apostle of Hindu-Muslim unity', to being the chief exponent, advocate and creator of Pakistan.

Seventy-five years ago, India was carved up in a matter of months and the new states of East and West Pakistan were formed by lines drawn on a map by a man who had never visited the country. Here, three people who witnessed the huge upheaval and terrible sectarian violence tell their stories <br>