Re: Share your 1947 Migration to Pakistan Stories
Those were horrible times.
My maternal family's town was very near the border and it was a muslim majority area and all had heard that it is included in Pakistan, so people had not migrated. Till few days before 14 Aug 1947, town was atatcked by Sikhs, they all escaped hurriedly towards border, their small convoy consisted of 15-20 men and women and children in the centre. They were attacked by Sikhs and my nana and his brother were killed trying to protect them. Most women and kids and 5 men were able to escape to near by refugee camp.
One of my Nani's cousin had a young brother 3 years old, they had shielded him in their chadar, when the Sikhs atatcked, he became were restless and fought his way out of chadar, and ran towards the muslim men. She says she heard a cry as if he was hit by something. She knew that he has been killed. Few months later someone coming from that area said that he had seen the boy there. She was so happy, she begged my uncle to go look for him and bring him to Pakistan. She even made a small bed for him. So my uncle along with few men went back but he was never found. Many muslim women were captured by Sikhs, some committed suicide, others continued to live the misery for years.