Pakistani girl and Indian boy tie the knot refer dailytimes.com.pk
PESHAWAR: People-to-people contact is a good tool to break the ice between the two nuclear rival countries, Pakistan and India, and bring evermore peace and prosperity in both the countries, said the families of a Pakistani girl and Indian boy who tied the knot in Peshawar. Two weeks ago, Mohammad Khalid from a Pashtun family of Lucknow (India) with its members belonging to ruling Congress party and Syeda Imara, daughter of a senior journalist Syed Shakeel Ahmed, entered into wedlock in Peshawar. Talking to Daily Times at a dinner arranged by the Peshawar Press Club in the honour of the Indian family, families of the newly wed couple said that people of both the countries wanted peace, good relations and prosperity in both the countries and the whole region. Peshawar-based senior journalist Syed Shakeel Ahmed told Daily Times that before partition of the subcontinent, the people had a strong relationship, but unfortunately, after the partition, relationships between governments of the two countries kept becoming bad from time to time due to which, people of both the countries suffered. akhtar amin