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Shamima Khatoon was 18-years-old at the time of partition. Her father-in-law was the President of the All-India Muslim League in Delhi. When the closely-knit, extended family decided to migrate to Pakistan, they flew into the new country by air and settled in Sargodha. However, having left a capital city, the family soon decided to move […]

Rafia Abid Siddiqui was born in Hyderabad Deccan and was 10-years-old at the time of partition. She migrated to Pakistan with her family in 1949; theytravelled via a ship from Bombay to Karachi.After spending six months in Karachi, the family moved to Peshawar for a few years. Siddiqui recalls living through three different situations in […]

Ijaz Hussain Khan, a veteran Pakistani cricketer, shares his memories about the city of Jalandhar, sporting activities in British India and his family’s recollection of days leading up to Independence and migration to Pakistan. Khan says Jalandhar used to be referred to as doaaba because of its location between Sutlej and Beas rivers. The water […]

Born in 1901, Syed Nazir Ahmed Niazi was an eminent scholar, journalist, and researcher, and he participated actively in the Pakistan Movement, notes his grandson Osama Rizvi. Rizvi says his grandfather had taken up Niazi as his nom de plume seeking inspiration from a Turkish general actively involved in Kemal Attaturk’s campaign against colonisers. “He […]

Zeenat Safdar Haroon was born to Haji Abdullah Haroon and Lady Nusrat Abdullah Haroon on January 21, 1928, in Karachi. She still remembers seeing Quaid-e-AzamMuhammad Ali Jinnah at all of the All-India Muslim League (AIML) rallies she attended in years leading to the partition of British India. ButZeenatHaroon’s most memorable moments are from the AIML’s […]

Yusuf Ali Badar’s (b. 1936) father was employed in the Indian Railway. Their family was allotted a residence in aRailway Colony inMuradabad, United Provinces. “Railway colonies had been established outside the city. We were living in a colony near the Railway Station during those days,” he says, recalling the time close to the Partition of […]

Ask any Pakistani belonging to the current generation what Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is like and they will not speak of it very fondly. Call it the curse of the millennials if you like, but anybody who grew up in the earlier years of Pakistan will tell you what an astounding institution it once was. […]

Salima Hashmi is a Pakistani painter and artist. She has served for four years as a professor and the dean of the National College of Arts. She is the eldest daughter of the renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz and his British-born wife AlysFaiz. In her interview, she discusses thebeginning of the National College of Arts […]

“There were no issues. We lived happily. We had friends who were Hindus, but then the circumstances changed.” Born in Delhi, Jamsheed Jahan was six years old at the time of Partition. Though very young at the time, the trauma of Partition remains etched in her memory. Her family had close links with the Muslim […]

Jamila Begum has soft eyes, a soft smile and a pleasant presence. From her appearance, the trials and ordeals of her lifetime remain unfathomable. Ms. Jamila Begum was born in 1936 in Meerut, India. On 27th September, 1947, she left Meerut ona train for Rawalpindi with her brother, an army man, and her mother and […]