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BBC News - 4 August 2017
The friendship that survived the division of a nation
Image caption Agha Ahmed Raza, Amar Kapur and Rishad Haider grew up in Lahore, Pakistan
Seventy years ago, in August 1947, British colonial rule in India came to an end. The country was divided into two independent states - Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Using letters and diaries sourced from the world’s first Partition Museum which opens in Amritsar on 17 August, Soutik Biswas pieces (…)

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