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Although people all over the world faced the miseries of World wars but I have two samll but interesting incidents which will reflect the sufferings of people in Pakistan.

1. This story is of a young lady who later became my grandmother. She was engaged to a soldier in then British army (now Pakistan army). His name was Muhammad Khan. Both sides were preparing for marriage when WW-11 started and he was sent to some front near Turkey. And then moved to some other front and then to other front. After couple of years, he stopped writting letters and there was no news about him. Here every body specially the young lady was waitting for her bride groom. But he never turned up. The family members convenienced the lady that he must be dead in some war. After many years of waitting for a letter or any news in desperation, convenienced her the soldier must be killed some where. Half heartedly the lady agreed to marry some one else(my grand father).

After couple of months a day was agreed and on that day when ceremony finished and all the guests were having their meal, a new guest came, he was the lost soldier.

He begged to the lady`s relative, but it was too late, the ceremony had already taken place. It was a real movie scene. The soldier became injured during action and then was taken prisioner by the Germans and remain there for this time, so could not communicate.

This is just a story of a single girl, we have places in Pakistan where hundereds of homes have a similiar story. someone brother , someone son is missing and still don`t know what happened to them.

2. This story is of my uncle who was a Colonel in Pakistan army and now is retired. His father was a soldier in British Army and when my uncle was just a kid, his father was sent to a front on WW-11. After couple of years, there was no news about him, or no letter from him.
They tried there best to trace him but all in vain.

This kid (my uncle), grew young and got comession in Pakistan Army. Year after year, he tried to get some information, but all in vain. He went to the rank of Major and was posted to some far area/border of Pakistan, when some stranger came to meet him. He was a very old man. He told him that he was from his father`s company/unit. They both were fighting against German/Turkish forces in Turkey when his father was killed and all his fellow soldiers burried him there. He told him that his grave is still in that battle ground in Turkey.
My uncle went to that battle ground, and there ware many unnamed graves of the soldiers from sub-continent.

He had no other option to leave flowers there and coma back.

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