An emotional meeting between two cousins who had been separated 76 years ago during the Partition was made possible thanks to social media, a Pakistani official reported Monday from Lahore.
On Sunday, Mohammad Ismaeel and his 80-year-old cousin Surinder Kaur traveled from their respective cities in Pakistan and India to the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur for an emotional reunion.
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Another family reunion, at Darbar Sahib Kartarpur Corridor.
Mr. Muhammad Ismael from Sahiwal, Pakistan
Surinder Kaur from Jalandhar, India#KartarpurSahib #Pakistan #IndoPakRelations #PMU #TDCP #PTC #Official #Corridor #CEO #Sikhs #gurdawara #meetup pic.twitter.com/jOWIdg1liG— PMU Kartarpur Official (@PmuKartarpur) October 21, 2023
The administration of Karatarpur Sahib arranged for the cousins to see each other again and provided them with sweets and langar, according to a member of the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) who spoke to PTI.
Surinder Kaur is from Jalandhar, while Mohammad Ismaeel is from the Sahiwal area of Punjab, which is around 200 kilometers from Lahore.
Mohammad Ismaeel and Surinder Kaur’s families were neighbors in the town of Shahkot in the Jalandhar area until the riots drove them apart.
Specifics of their eventual reconnection
After Mohammad Ismaeel’s story was posted on a Pakistani Punjabi YouTube channel, an Australian man named Sardar Mission Singh contacted him to give him news about his missing relatives in India. Surinder Kaur’s phone number was provided by Singh to Mohammad Ismaeel, and the two cousins chatted and arranged to meet at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib through the Kartarpur Corridor.
The reconnection brought on emotional scenes. Similarly, Surinder Kaur and his Indian family members observed religious observances.
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The Kartarpur Religious Highway in Pakistan
Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, is buried in Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The Dera Baba Nanak shrine is located in India’s Punjab state, in the Gurdaspur region.
— PMU Kartarpur Official (@PmuKartarpur) September 25, 2023
Sikh pilgrims from India do not need visas to travel the four kilometers to the Darbar Sahib.
