92-year-old Indian Woman Visits Ancestral Home In Pakistan After 75 Years

After 75 years, a 92-year-old Indian woman has visited her ancestral home in Pakistan. Reena Chhibar reached Pakistan on Saturday after the Pak High Commission issued a three-month visa to the woman as a goodwill gesture.

On 15 July, Reena crossed the Attari-Wagah border to return to revisit 'Prem Nivas', her childhood home in Pakistan's Rawalpindi. She told the governments of both countries to "work together" to reduce visa restrictions to make "coming and going easy for us".

Reena Verma was only 15 years old when she left her childhood home. Her family sent her siblings and her to Solan in March 1947 – just months ahead of the partition. In 1947, after the partition, her parents also moved to India.

She immediately applied for visa but was rejected in March 2022. But she did not lose hope. In May this year, the Pakistani High Commission issued a three-month visa to her after a video story of Reena, done by the Independent Urdu went viral on social media.

"I have the courage to travel all alone to Pakistan in this age, because the people there have shown me so much love. I genuinely feel like I am going back home," Reena told The Quint.

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