'We hope that the step will lead to improvement in relations between the two neighbours'
TURBAT: After 12 years, the gate of Khokhrapar-Munabao border briefly opened so that the body of a Muslim woman could be sent to India after she died in Pakistan on July 25.
On June 30, Reshma, a resident of Agasadi village in Barmer district of Rajasthan, visited Pakistan to meet her family in Sanghar, Sindh. She had planned to return to her village on July 28. However, as fate would have it, she passed away before that.
It was the wish of her family to bury her in her hometown in Rajasthan, so in line with this wish they asked the authorities concerned for help. It was heart-warming to see that after a long time, the authorities of both countries — India and Pakistan — agreed unanimously, purely on humanitarian basis, to open the border that has been shut for a long time.
We hope that the step will lead to improvement in relations between the two neighbours.
Bakhtiyar Phullan
Published in The Express Tribune, August 8th, 2018.
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