Brothers Separated During India-Pakistan Partition Reunite After 74 Years At Kartarpur Corridor

India-Pakistan partition in 1947 was one of the most painful events that broke many families and human bonds leading to scars that would last for centuries together. Of them were two brothers who lost each other in the process which kept them apart in two different sides of the Line Of Control (LoC).

Yet finally after 74 long years of wait, they reunited in Kartarpur bursting into tears of joy, moving the spectators to the core.

Recently a video capturing the emotional reunion of the siblings surfaced on the social media that has been going viral.

Named Siddique and Habib, the brothers in their 80’s are currently residing in Pakistan’s Faisalabad and the Phullanwal area of Punjab in India respectively.  The two arrived at the Kartarpur Corridor that connects Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan to the border with India for the meeting.

As per reports,  Siqqique was an infant when his family got split and his elder brother Habib grew up on the Indian side of the Partition line.

In the video, the brothers could not control their emotions and embraced each other recalling old times.

Watch it here.

Habib lauded the initiative of Kartarpur, saying that the corridor facilitating a visa-free travel from India to Pakistan up to Kartapur helped him to reconnect with his brother. He also told his younger brother that they will continue meeting through the corridor.

Social media users had an array of responses for the event.

The Indian government decided to re-open the 4.7-kilometre-long Kartarpur Corridor in November 2019 that was closed in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.