Amritsar: It was like a melodramatic bollywood potboiler when the Octogenarian brother was separated from 1947 Indo Pak partitions embracing each other in the Kartarpur corridor.
The atmosphere is full of emotions, in such a way that not only make fellow worshipers but also the management of the Kartapur corridor to stop, listen to them, become part of their celebration and express my gratitude to the Almighty for the reunion of the brothers who are separate in the end of their lives.
On Tuesday Muhammad Habib alias Shaila had gone from India to the Kartpur corridor after his family members found his separate brother Muhammad Siddiq, a resident of Faislabad, Pakistan with the help of social media.
The sources of telling that Habib told his separate brother Siddiq that he had never married and cared for their now dead.
In another case, Sunita Devi, a resident of the ajowal district in Hoshiarpur district told him that he was with five members of his family more going to Kartpaur to meet his relatives in Pakistan.
He said that his father chose to settle in India while his brothers (all Muslims) lived in Faislabad in Pakistan.
“I was in the Kartpur corridor on a routine visit with my staff on Tuesday and we were pebeled to see a group of people embracing and, crying and curious about the meeting and was surprised to learn the meeting of family members separated during the partition of Indo,” said Chief Executive Officer, project management unit Muhammad Latif.
In the past, there was an incident when an Amritsari man, Jatinder Singh went to Pakistan through the corridor with the guise of pilgrims to meet his girlfriend Asia Rafiq, a Punjab University graduate student, Lahore who he met through Facebook.
Similarly, in another incident a girl from Haryana Manjit Kaur has crossed to Pakistan to meet her Facebook friends, Awais Mukhtar.
In both cases, the couple was found to move in a suspicious state by Rangers Pakistan.
Latif said that as opposed to the arrangement of catering to 5000 worshipers from India only a handful of pilgrims who came to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib.
He further said that, “Yesterday only 153 worshipers came to Pakistan while we had settings for 5000 worshipers one day” and added that the Kartarpur corridor also helped meet the people who separated at the time of the partition.