“A traintrack running to Rawalpindi lay by my Grandfather’s field, I used to see refugee trains traveling to Pakistan with slaughtered people hanging off the sides of the carriages,militants would stop these trains by the canal bridge, shoot the passengers, men, women and children, and then drop them into the canal, some alive, some dead.”
-Gurbaksh Garcha
-Gurbaksh Garcha
The fact that conditions became even more dangerous during the partition of India exemplifies the need for two separate nations in order to prevent such acts of violence and to build toward more peaceful relations between two countries.
"It was 1947 and I was twenty-one when I decided to visit Pakistan, you know just to see this new land, I wasn't planning on moving or anything. The train I had boarded upon was just like another train but along the way there as a halt. I didn't find out until afterwards that the people in the train before us were all killed by Hindus. I can only thank God for sparing my life for such sorrowful end... When I arrived to Pakistan, the new land and community had a feeling of happiness an I felt welcomed, and so I decided to live in Pakistan"
-Azim Uddin- Migrant from India to Pakistan
Kashmir Conflict
"The territory of Kashmir was hotly contested even before India and Pakistan won their independence from Britain in August 1947. Under the partition plan provided by the Indian Independence Act of 1947, Kashmir was free to accede to India or Pakistan. Since then, the territory has been the spark for two of the three India-Pakistan wars: the first in 1947-8, the second in 1965."
-BBC News- "Kashmir Dispute"