Pakistani, Indian siblings reunite 75 years after partition
BHATINDA, INDIA: Tears of joy rolled down his wizened cheeks when Indian Sika Khan met his Pakistani brother for the first time since being separated by Partition in 1947. Sikh labourer Sika was just six months old when he and his elder brother Sadiq Khan were torn apart as Britain split the subcontinent at the end of colonial rule. This year marks the 75th anniversary of Partition, during which bloodshed killed possibly more than one million people, families like Sika’s were cleaved apart and two independent nations — Pakistan and India — were created. In this picture Indian Sikh labourer Sika Khan meets his brother Sadiq Khan at Kartarpur Corridor. — AFP Sika’s father and sister were killed in communal massacres, but Sadiq, just 10 years old, managed to flee to Pakistan. "My mother could not bear the trauma and jumped into the river and killed herself," Sika said at his simple brick house in Bhatinda, a district in the western Indian state of Punjab, which bore