14-06-2005

Karachi Helps Indian Tourists Re-visit Old Houses

via ww1.mid-day.com

Local authorities in Karachi city have started updating records of old buildings and bungalows of Karachi in order to help visitors from neighbouring India to locate their houses which they had abandoned during the partition in 1947. This was revealed by officials in the city district government of Karachi. The idea found root after city authorities launched a painstaking search to locate the ancestral birthplace of Lal Krishna Advani during his recent visit to Pakistan. Advani’s wife, Kamla, had the proper address of his birthplace in Karachi but even she failed to find landmarks.

Found by Asim