Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Going Back to Pakistan: 70 Years After Partition



Mr Khanna returns to Pakistan for the first time since he was forced to flee when India was split apart in 1947.


"Before I die, I want to go back to where I was born." 

Krishan Kumar Khanna grew up just outside Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city. After a childhood he remembers fondly, his life changed dramatically in August 1947. 

As Britain left the Indian subcontinent, colonial planners hastily split it into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.

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