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*Pakistani sons meet their Indian mother after a
Separation of 52 Years, Amir Mir (
Two 50-plus Pakistani brothers, who finally met their 75-year-old Indian mother after a long gap of 52 years in Lahore, last week, are not letting her go back to India, although her visa expired on November 11.
Karamatullah and his brother Qudratullah have me their mother, Herbuns Kaur, in Nankana Sahib for the first time after being separated in 1954.
The Pakistani media has reported that the Pakistani security forces forcibly sent Herbuns Kaur to India 52 years ago, thinking that she was an Indian national although she had already converted to Islam and married a Muslim.
The recent birth anniversary celebration of Baba Guru Nanak
at Nankana Sahib proved to be the reunion ceremony
for the family as the Indian mother and her Pakistani children were able to
meet each other there. The family of Herbuns Kaur,
born to Sikh parents from
Reportedly Mir Hussan, the Sikh
family’s servant, took her to his illage in Muzaffarabad and adopted. She converted to Islam and
married Sakhiullah, a Pakistan Army officer. She
subsequently gave birth to two sons - Qudratullah and
Karamatullah. When the two sons were 6 and 7 years
old, Sakhiullah got posted to Siallkot,
from where the security forces arrested Herbuns Kaur
and deported her to
“I tried my best o find my Muslim husband and my sons, but
to no avail. When I returned to
With Jasi’s help, Herbuns Kaur said, the professor finally found her sons in
2005. “However, we could only talk over the telephone since then. I met my sons
for the first time after almost six decades at Baba Guru Nanak’s birth
anniversary.” Herbuns Kaur presently lives with the
children of her brother-in-law in
Meanwhile, Karamatullah and Qudratullah have appealed to the Pakistani President
General Musharraf to allow their mother to stay with them in