Remembrance of ancestral home, brought tears to eyes: Some want to go to Pakistan and some are desperate for India

Born in Pakistan, Reena Chhibber Verma came to India with her family during the India-Pakistan partition and stayed here. But he always remembered his ancestral home and the people around him. Now at the age of 90, she reached Pakistan after 75 years on Saturday to visit her ancestral home in Rawalpindi.

wish to meet childhood friends

When she entered Lahore via the Wagah-Attari border, she had tears of joy in her eyes. Reena left for Rawalpindi directly from Lahore, where she would visit her ancestral residence ‘Prem Niwas’ and school, as well as meet childhood friends.

Reena Chhibber Verma had expressed her desire to see her mansion by talking to the Pakistani rulers through social media.

In a video uploaded on social media, Verma told that his family lived on Devi College Road in Rawalpindi when India and Pakistan were partitioned.

Pakistani High Commission gave 3 months visa as a goodwill gesture

The Pakistani High Commission in India has issued a three-month visa to Verma, who was just 15 years old at the time of partition in 1947, when her family moved to India.

These celebrities also have mansions in Pakistan

There are many people among us who have seen the painful period of India-Pakistan partition, whose traces are still standing across the border. Not only common people but the birthplace of many Bollywood celebrities is in today’s Pakistan.

Just like many Pakistani people still have their roots in India. Let us know about the mansions of those selected Indian celebrities which are in Pakistan-

Bollywood’s ‘show man’ Raj Kapoor was born in Peshawar, Pakistan. The mansion where he was born is almost 104 years old. This mansion is in Dhakki Munawar Shah of Peshawar. The Kapoor family’s haveli was 6 floors, out of which now three floors are left.

This mansion of Kapoor family was said to be given the status of Cultural Heritage by the Government of Pakistan.

This mansion was built between 1918 and 1922 by Baseshwarnath Kapoor, father of Prithviraj Kapoor. After the Indo-Pak partition in 1947, the Kapoor family left the mansion and settled in Mumbai. In the year 1990, Shashikpur went to Peshawar with his son Rishi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor to visit the mansion.

Dilip Kumar, popularly known as ‘Tragedy King’, also has an ancestral home in Peshawar, Pakistan. However it is in very dilapidated condition. His house is in Khudadad locality of Khwani Bazar of Peshawar. Dilip Kumar’s two-storey house was declared a national monument in the year 2013, but nothing has been done to take care of it.

This two-storey house of Dilip Kumar in Khudadad locality of Khwani Bazar is in a very dilapidated condition today.

Born in Peshawar, Dilip Kumar’s real name is Yusuf Khan. Dilip Kumar lived in this house for seven years before coming to Mumbai. Dilip Kumar’s family came to Mumbai in 1930.

The birthplace of famous actor Rajesh Khanna is said to be Amritsar of Punjab. But Pakistani media has claimed that Rajesh Khanna is of Pakistani origin and he was born on 29 December 1942 in Budewal city of Pakistan and not in Amritsar city of Punjab, India.

Rajesh Khanna’s father Hiranand Khanna’s haveli Jatan Niwas in Budewal city of Pakistan.

His reports said that Rajesh Khanna’s father Hiranand Khanna was the first headmaster of MC School in Budewal city of Pakistan. He took retirement in March 1947. The name of the building of his house was Jatan Niwas. It is also said that Rajesh Khanna’s real name was Jatta Khanna.

Dina Wadia wanted right over Jinnah’s mansion

Quaid-e-Azam and the founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, had a very luxurious bungalow in Mumbai, which their only daughter Dina Wadia wanted to take.

He fought a long battle in the Mumbai court for his childhood home on Malabar Hill, near the sea. Meanwhile, in 2017 Dina Wadia died in New York at the age of 98.

Dina Wadia spent many years in Mumbai but was living in America for the last few decades.

In the year (August 2007) Dina Wadia (then 88 years old) moved the Bombay High Court and filed a petition claiming that the rights of the bungalow be handed over to her as she is Jinnah’s sole heir. In her petition, she said that she wants to spend the rest of her years at home in Mumbai, where she spent her childhood days. But his wish could not be fulfilled.

Originally known as South Court in Mumbai, this luxurious Jinnah House was the residence of Mahatma Gandhi, J.L. Witnesses the important meetings between Nehru and Jinnah.

Let us tell you that Dina Wadia was born in August 1919 in London to Jinnah’s Parsi wife Rati Rattanbai Petit. But after the death of her mother, the relationship between Dina and her father was not good. The daughter went against her father’s wishes and married into the Wadia family and then spent most of her time in India, Europe and America.