Viral Video: Reena Chhibar Visits Pakistan Ancestral Home after 77 years

• A 92-year-old Indian woman has visited her family’s home in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
• Pakistani officials gave her a three-month visa as a sign of goodwill.
• She asked both countries’ governments to make it easier for people to come and go by easing visa restrictions.

Local media say that Reena Chhibar, an Indian woman who is 92 years old, arrived in Pakistan on Saturday to visit her family home.

Viral Video: Reena Chhibar Visits Pakistan Ancestral Home after 77 years

The Pakistani High Commission gave the woman a three-month visa as a sign of goodwill.

On Saturday, the woman crossed the Wagah-Attari border to go to her family’s home in Prem Niwas, which is in the city of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. She asked both countries’ governments to “work together” to make it easier for people to come and go by easing visa restrictions.

As Ms Reena was being driven from the border to Rawalpindi, she thought about how Pindi was a thriving community of people from many different cultures before the partition.

She told the media, “My siblings had friends who would come over to our house from various communities, including Muslims,” She also recalled that “our house-help was also a diverse mix of people.”

After the country was split in 1947, her family moved to India. A news report says that she was 15 years old at the time.

Ms Reena said that she  “could not remove her ancestral home, her neighbourhood, and the streets from her heart”.

The Indian woman told the media source that Reena had tried to get a visa to go to Pakistan in 1965, but she couldn’t because there was a war between the two countries’ neighbours at the time.

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