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She married across the India-Pakistan border. Her children won’t
With a ceasefire now in place, both countries must reinstate people-to-people links to help build mutual understanding.
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Pakistani citizen Ruwa Talib crying as her Indian husband Mohamad Talib reached out to take their child, who is an Indian citizen, at the Attari-Wagah border crossing near Amritsar, India, on May 2.
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When Ms Afsheen Jahangir, an Indian national, married a Pakistani based in Karachi in 2014, she was continuing her family’s long tradition of cross-border marriages.
The 32-year-old is a member of the Silawati community spread across the contiguous region of Pakistan’s Sindh and India’s Rajasthan, who often marry their distant cousins.
