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Split families still suffer after 75 years of India-Pakistan partition

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KARACHI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Ali Hasan Baqai and Syed Abid Baqai, brothers split for 75 years by the partition of India and Pakistan, talk with their families on a video call, words and tears binding them but with no hope of reunion. Thousands of families like the Baqai brothers’ remain divided three-quarters of a century after their countries were formed in the rupture of independence from British-ruled India in 1947. “I felt that I can’t touch them,” younger brother Syed Abid told Reuters in New Delhi. It was good to see Ali Hasan in Karachi, but it was nothing like “a hug, a touch, shaking…

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