BBC News published this video item, entitled “Remembering the refugee road from Pakistan to India – BBC News” – below is their description.
British India’s joy at independence from colonial rule in 1947 was accompanied by the trauma of being divided into two nations: India and Pakistan.
The event sparked religious violence in which up to a million people died. Millions were displaced and forced to rebuild their lives overnight.
Sarabjit Singh was four years old when his family moved from Lahore in present-day Pakistan to Jalandhar in India.
As India marks 75 years since independence and the partition, Mr Singh, now 79 years old, spoke to the BBC’s Anshul Verma about the long, painful journey to a new life.
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India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the second-most populous country, the seventh-largest country by land area, and the most populous democracy in the world. New Delhi is the capital.
It has an exceptionally diverse population, with Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and other religions speaking over 21 recognised languages.
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It has a population exceeding 212.2 million, including the world’s second-largest Muslim population. It has an area of 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles).
Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor in the northwest, and also shares a maritime border with Oman.