Originally posted by: April2007
I can...My whole clan each and every member of my family use to live in west punjab ..now pakistan..our whole history and family stories are from that part of the pakistan..they were all very well off..even now our whole family narratives is from west punjab..each and every story is linked to our land and our ancester, who lived for centuries in that part ..in Rawalpindi, Gujrat Kashmir and in Lahore and some in Karach..they had no intention of leaving...their houses were burned and some were killed they ran with clothes on their back, they were chased out..they were pursued by gun trotting muslims..they even decided to kill their daughters because they were unable to save them, but fortunately the daughters were saved.\Majority of the punjabis I know ran with clothes on their back. I know many families whose fathers, brothers were killed and daughters jumped in the well to save honor..We still think of west punjab as our ancestral home..all the stories and family narratives are linked with the land of Punjab that is part of Pakistan.