A Sikh man reunites with his family after 75 years. Sarwan Singh, 92, a resident of Bahauddinpur village in Jalandhar, was overwhelmed with emotions when he met his nephew lost to the partition riots over 75 years ago at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur, in Pakistan. Sarwan’s nephew, Mohan Singh, then six years old, was separated from his family during the Partition riots in 1947, during which 22 of his family members lost their lives in the communal conflagration in Chak 37 village in Pakistan. Mohan somehow managed to survive during the war when all the Hindus and Sikhs were slaughtered by the Islamist supremacists who wanted to purge Pakistan of non-believers.
Seven and a half decades later, Mohan met his uncle and his daughter Rachhpal Kaur when the duo visited the resting place of Sikhism’s founder Guru Nanak. Both Sarwan Singh and Mohan (Afzal) were swept with emotions as the two found themselves short of words to express their pleasure over meeting each other after 75 years. During the partition Mohan and his family lived in modern day Pakistan were attacked by the islamist groups. The Islamist slaughtered men and women but Mohan somehow managed to flee from the place and he was raised by a Muslim family and thus converted into a Muslim. There are many beautiful stories of reuniting with their families.
コメント