Watch: 90-year-old woman visits ancestral home in Pakistan's Rawalpindi after 75 years

Reena Varma arrived in the country via the Wagah-Attari border and soon departed for her hometown Rawalpindi, where she received a rousing welcome to the music of dhols Reena Varma’s long-cherished dream of visiting her ancestral home in Rawalpindi became a reality after Pakistan granted the 90-year-old a visa and she arrived in the country via the Wagah-Attari border — 75 years after leaving the place during the Partition. Reena Verma - the happiness on her face 💙 My video report: pic.twitter.com/NdWofgsTkr — Shiraz Hassan July 20, 2022 In the video, Varma could be heard singing ‘Yeh galiyan yeh chaubara’ as she visits her ancestral home. https://t.co/4aZO2PFBsD — Kashmir, Book3, The Partition Trilogy July 21, 2022 Another wrote, “Really puts into perspective that one could travel to Venice easily, a city that was thousands of kilometres away but there may be a need to move mountains to visit one’s ancestral land which may be a few hundreds of kilometres away.” Really puts into perspective that I can travel a lot easier to Venice, a city which is tens of thousands of kilometres away but I might have to move mountains to visit my ancestral land just a few hundreds of kilometres away. https://t.co/uHcrmDh8wx — Dr. Ruchika Sharma July 21, 2022 “She is one of those few ’lucky’ Punjabis who could see their birthplaces ‘once again in life’.