AMRITSAR : Kartapur Corridor continues to emerge as a meeting place for the families divided across the Radcliffe Line both during IndoPak partition in 1947 and later.
On Thursday, Bawi Devi, a resident of Zaffarwal city in Narowal district of Pakistan, met her namesake aunt Bawi Devi, a resident of Gurdaspur, India, after the latter had migrated to India in 1971.
Sohal , son of Pakistani Bawi Devi, informed that it was during the Coronavirus-induced lockdown that he chased the contacts in India as told by her mother and finally came across his mother’s “Chachi’s” family in Gurdaspur.
Recalling the initial days of making contacts in India, Sohail said many times, his relatives or the persons through whom he was able to connect his relatives wouldn’t pick up his phone call.
“Maybe they were suspicious of the call from Pakistan but with time we won their trust and finally we met with departed relatives at Kartapur Sahib with the blessings of Almighty,” he said.
On February 19, a Christian man from Ajnala, near Amritsar, found his father’s separated family in Pakistan and had met them at Kart apur Sahib. Prior to that in January, septuagenarian brothers who were separated during the Indo-Pak partition had also met at Kartarpur Sahib.
“We are very pleased for these families who somehow find each other and Kartapur Corridor has provided them a place to rejoin,” said Chief Executive Officer, Project Management Unit, Muhammad Latif.
