90-year-old Indian woman revisits Pakistan after 75 years to see her ancestral home
2 years, 5 months ago

90-year-old Indian woman revisits Pakistan after 75 years to see her ancestral home

Deccan Chronicle  

Lahore: An Indian woman's long-cherished dream of visiting her ancestral home in Rawalpindi materialised when Pakistan granted 90-year-old Reena Chhibber Varma a visa and she arrived here on Saturday via the Wagah-Attari border, 75 years after leaving the country at the time of Partition. Moist-eyed Varma, immediately after her arrival in Pakistan, left for her hometown Rawalpindi, where she will visit her ancestral dwelling Prem Niwas, her school, and childhood friends. The Pakistan High Commission in India, in a goodwill gesture, has issued a three-month visa to Varma, who was only 15 years old when her family moved to India during the Partition in 1947. The elderly woman said she had expressed her desire to visit her ancestral home on social media last year.

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