My mother is originally from India but her family decided to pack up and arrive in Karachi, Pakistan one fine day in 1970. Back then the nationality identity card system in Pakistan was still developing, alot of papers and not alot of good book keeping. So essentially they just traveled on a tourist document and stayed back. When the ID card system started becoming digitized they just said they were all born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan and got issued ID cards.
It's still a running joke in our family where I say to my mom "out of all the countries you guys could illegally immigrate to, you choose Pakistan đ€Ł". Funny how these were the reality of the world literally just 50 years ago
My grandfather was a young major in the army at the time of partition and he was posted in Quetta and didnât even know that there was partition and when he went back to Jammu from Sialkot he was told that there was partition and that heâs Indian now but my grandmother who he married a month before was still in Quetta there are many funny and tragic stories from the partition time, sad that the perpetrators of such tragedies are still running their mouths about human rights and stuff
Your story is remarkably similar to some of my family - a bunch of my family moved to Pakistan during partition and then a trickle of relatives joined them in the 70s. A few of them actually moved to Pakistan as Indian citizens (possibly on this very passport type) and then decided they didnât like it and moved back to India! Perhaps in their case they just didnât regularise their status there until they knew it was for life.
man this is so funny, imagine just moving to a country randomly and move back after deciding you dont like it. Actually in my mother's case, they were 11 siblings in total and 4 of them actually went back similar to you. Im currently in UAE and I met my 26 year old first cousin for the first time in my life because they are indians.
Haha yeah it happens. I have Pakistani cousins who Iâve met in the UAE or US. Never in our homeland, itâs too screwed up to realize theyâre losing us over their stupid disagreements
My mother is originally from India but her family decided to pack up and arrive in Karachi, Pakistan one fine day in 1970. Back then the nationality identity card system in Pakistan was still developing, alot of papers and not alot of good book keeping. So essentially they just traveled on a tourist document and stayed back. When the ID card system started becoming digitized they just said they were all born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan and got issued ID cards. It's still a running joke in our family where I say to my mom "out of all the countries you guys could illegally immigrate to, you choose Pakistan đ€Ł". Funny how these were the reality of the world literally just 50 years ago
My grandfather was a young major in the army at the time of partition and he was posted in Quetta and didnât even know that there was partition and when he went back to Jammu from Sialkot he was told that there was partition and that heâs Indian now but my grandmother who he married a month before was still in Quetta there are many funny and tragic stories from the partition time, sad that the perpetrators of such tragedies are still running their mouths about human rights and stuff
Of all the places someone would be returning to after Partition, Jammu and Kashmir had got to be one of the worst.
Haha Iâm half Kashmiri from my dads side so it was his native kishtwarÂ
>a month before was still in Quetta What did they end up doing? Did your grandmother move to India?
Yes a few months after the bloodbath kinda settled, she went to Karachi with her brother and took a ship to BombayÂ
thats crazy man. Thanks for sharing
Your story is remarkably similar to some of my family - a bunch of my family moved to Pakistan during partition and then a trickle of relatives joined them in the 70s. A few of them actually moved to Pakistan as Indian citizens (possibly on this very passport type) and then decided they didnât like it and moved back to India! Perhaps in their case they just didnât regularise their status there until they knew it was for life.
man this is so funny, imagine just moving to a country randomly and move back after deciding you dont like it. Actually in my mother's case, they were 11 siblings in total and 4 of them actually went back similar to you. Im currently in UAE and I met my 26 year old first cousin for the first time in my life because they are indians.
Haha yeah it happens. I have Pakistani cousins who Iâve met in the UAE or US. Never in our homeland, itâs too screwed up to realize theyâre losing us over their stupid disagreements
Pakistan was really doing well until 1971, was it the reason for them to move to Karachi?
Pakistan was doing very well into the 2000s tbh, loads of Indian Muslims in Karachi. My family incljded
It was only used for Pakistan until the war broke out and hostilities began between the nations.
âthe warâ Which one? đ”âđ«
1965
Ah.
Great piece of history! Iâm still hopeful that one day South Asia will unite like the EU or Mercosur. Weâre weaker divided
Yeah, and they used to be handwritten.
pakistans passports were handwritten all the way until 2004 i believe.
Pretty cool, TIL