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India's economy has outpaced Pakistan's handily since Partition in 1947 – politics explains why
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLord Louis Mountbatten, viceroy of India, discusses Britain's partition plan with Hindu and Muslim...
The Partition provoked the greatest forced migration in history — and it's not widely known
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 9 months ago“I had friends who were Muslims, you know.” It was late 2019, and I was trying to untangle the...
What the Queen meant to India and Pakistan: ‘A symbol of continuity in a churning ocean of change’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAscending the throne just after the birth of independent India and Pakistan, the Queen will be...
75 years since partition: South Asians still grapple with the worst trauma of their families' lives
NBC Universal via AOL· 2 years agoAnkita Mukhopadhyay always knew there was pain in her grandfather’s past. As a kid, she didn’t...
At 75, Pakistan has moved far from the secular and democratic vision of its founder, Mohammad Ali...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMohammad Ali Jinnah addressing the assembly in Karachi on Aug. 15, 1947, after the creation of...
'My dream came true': Indian woman to revisit Pakistan home after 75 years
Reuters via AOL· 2 years agoWhen 92-year old Indian citizen Reena Varma visits her childhood home in Pakistan this week, for the...
Voices: What the partition means to young south Asians like me, 75 years on
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI cry for a nation torn apart, for a traumatised yet stoic generation of elders, for religious...
Pervez Musharraf, Former Military Ruler of Pakistan, Dies at 79
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 1 year ago(Bloomberg) -- Pervez Musharraf, the former four-star Pakistani army general who governed the South...
75 years ago, Britain's plan for Pakistani and Indian independence left unresolved conflicts on both...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLeaders in New Delhi agree on the plan to partition India: from left, Jawaharlal Nehru, Hastings...
King Charles III must do better than his mother on colonialism and reparations. Will he?
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch, is being talked...