Zia Mohiuddin reads Saadat Hasan Manto’s immortal classic Toba Tek Singh, a short story based on the absurdity of partitioning India and creating a new country of Pakistan in the name of religion. Both countries have gone to wars and have tried their best to make traveling between two countries as difficult as possible. Even after over six decades, the rulers in both countries do not want the wounds of 1947 to heal. The peoples’ suffering still continues and Pakistan is hanging in uncertainty. Click here to read an English translation. Ed.
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