TEARS OF JOY This handout picture taken on Jan. 12, 2022, and received as a courtesy of Pakistan’s YouTuber Nasir Dhillon shows Indian Sikh laborer Sika Khan (right) embracing his elder brother Sadiq Khan from Pakistan near the India-Pakistan border at the Kartarpur corridor. Tears of joy rolled down his wizened cheeks when Indian Sika Khan met his Pakistani
brother for the first time since being separated by Partition in 1947. Sika was just six months old when he and his elder brother Sadiq Khan were torn apart as Britain split the subcontinent at the end of colonial rule. PHOTO COURTESY OF NASIR DHILLON / AFP
TEARS OF JOY This handout picture taken on Jan. 12, 2022, and received as a courtesy of Pakistan’s YouTuber Nasir Dhillon shows Indian Sikh laborer Sika Khan (right) embracing his elder brother Sadiq Khan from Pakistan near the India-Pakistan border at the Kartarpur corridor. Tears of joy rolled down his wizened cheeks when Indian Sika Khan met his Pakistani brother for the first time since being separated by Partition in 1947. Sika was just six months old when he and his elder brother Sadiq Khan were torn apart as Britain split the subcontinent at the end of colonial rule. PHOTO COURTESY OF NASIR DHILLON / AFP

BHATINDA, India: Tears of joy rolled down his wizened cheeks when Indian Sika Khan met his Pakistani brother for the first time since being separated by Partition in 1947.

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