Pakistan grants 91-year-old Hindu man last wish, a trip to his old home

June 25, 2016 11:07

It is almost everyday that 91-year-old Krishna Khanna remembers his childhood days in the 1930s when as a boy of five he had laughed and played along with his grandfather at their home in Udhoke, Pakistan.

There is another memory. This one dark. It is 1947 and pre-partition riots have driven them from Udhoke to Sheikhupura, a city considered safer. They are cowering inside a gurdwara and a blood-thirsty mob has converged outside. But just before the door comes crashing down, the army arrives and saves them.

"But I have no bitterness... "Both our countries suffered. All I want to do now is see my ancestral village in Pakistan one more time. It's my last wish," he said.

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