2 Muslim sisters met their Sikh brother for the first time after 1947 separation

Agencies

November 27, 2018

Lahore, Nov 27: Two Muslim sisters, who were separated from their Sikh brother during the partition of 1947, had an emotional reunion on Sunday at Gurdwara Janam Asthan, Nankana Sahib after more than 70 years.

As reported by Hindustan Times, the three siblings originally hailed from a village near Dera Baba Nanak in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab.

Ulfat Bibi and Mairaj Bibi met and hugged Beant Singh for the first time in over seven decades.

Before the partition, the siblings lived with their family members in Paracha village near Dera Baba Nanak. But when they were migrating to Pakistan, the partition violence separated the two sisters from the brother.

The sisters had managed to settle with the family in Pakistan. Beant Singh, however, couldn’t cross the border and remained in India.

For more than 70 years, Beant had been in touch with Ulfat and Mairaj through letters. But recently, he finally met them in person after he travelled to Pakistan as a part of the Sikh Janta (group) from India.

Ulfat Bibi told Express Tribune that she will now be allowed to travel to India to meet her sister-in-law and other family members.

According to reports, the sisters also appealed to the Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to extend Beant Singh’s visa.

The reunion comes after Pakistan and India decided to open the Kartarpur corridor.The move is intended to facilitate the visit of Sikh pilgrims to Kartarpur Sahib.

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Israel continues massacre in Lebanon; targets capital Beirut in fresh aggression

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November 7,2024

The Israeli regime has killed at least 40 people during new airstrikes against eastern Lebanese areas, besides targeting the country’s capital Beirut with fresh acts of aggression.

Lebanon’s health ministry announced the fatalities on Wednesday, saying 53 other people had also been wounded during the aerial attacks that targeted the country’s Bekaa Valley, including the city of Baalbek.

In early Thursday, the regime was also reported to have attacked Beirut’s southern suburbs, including a site adjacent to Rafiq Hariri International Airport.

The attacks came after the regime issued short-notice evacuation orders apparently directed at the residents of the areas, claiming that the areas contained facilities belonging to Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement.

Tel Aviv has been using similar claims on countless occasions since last October, when it markedly intensified its deadly acts of aggression against Lebanon, in order to try to justify the escalation. Hezbollah has, however, invariably refuted the claims.

Also on Wednesday, the United Nations warned in its most recent flash report on the humanitarian crisis caused by the Israeli atrocities targeting Lebanon that the aggression had “reached a critical point.”

The attacks have claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people, which was “58 percent more than the 1,900 fatalities” that were caused by the regime’s 2006 war against Lebanon, the report said.

“Additionally, an estimated 1.3 million people have been displaced, both within Lebanon and into neighboring countries, 33 percent more than the number of people displaced in 2006,” it added.

Women comprised the majority of those who had been rendered homeless within Lebanon as a result of the Israeli attacks, the report noted.

It also regretted that the Israeli attacks had featured 78 assaults on healthcare facilities across the country that had claimed the lives of 130 health workers and injured 111 others.

In response to the aggression, Hezbollah has been staging hundreds of retaliatory strikes against the occupied Palestinian territories and the Israeli forces trying to advance on southern Lebanese areas.

The movement has vowed to sustain its strikes until the regime ends the escalation.

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