Carthik Sharma

56 years after the partition

Thursday, January 23, 2003

This new item made me sad. Whats worse? being rejected by what you look up to as a land created for you, or being rejected by the land you were born in?

Ray of hope for 283 Pak nationals in Kerala
By Ashraf Padanna, Special to Arab News

TRIVANDRUM, 13 January 2003 — As many as 283 ‘Pakistani’ nationals‚ residing in the Malabar region of Kerala would be allowed to stay back if the state government demands so, the federal Home Ministry assured yesterday. Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) lawmaker A Vijayaraghavan said Home Secretary Gopalaswamy conveyed this to him in response to his representation. These Keralites, who migrated to Pakistan after the partition only to be sent back by the Pakistani authorities, and living under miserable conditions without Indian citizenship, were hoping against hope that there would be an end to harassment by the Indian authorities who treat them as foreign nationals. Kerala Chief Minister A. K. Antony had already expressed his willingness to take up the case of these hapless men, most of them in their seventies and eighties living a life a of refugee.

Filed by Carthik at 11:03 pm under Livejournal

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56 years after the partition

Thursday, January 23, 2003

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