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InDepth headlines national business sports cricket regional entertainment technology world travel autos health | in-depth coverage > India-Pakistan Cricket Series 2005 > Akram visits ancestral village in Punjab with his father 23.26 IST 03rd May 2005 By Agencies 
Tears and bitter-sweet memories of a gone by era welled up for Muhammed Akram as he, along with his cricketer-son Wasim Akram, today stepped into his ancestral house in the remote village of Chawinda in Punjab which he had to flee as a 14-year-old during the traumatic Partition days.It was a contrasting experience for 72-year-old Muhammed, for whom it was largely journey down the memory lane and his son, known as sultan of swing in the cricket arena, who looked forward to the future by expressing his keenness to set up a cricket academy here. Muhammed spent over three hours in the village and met residents who were known to him before 1947. Trudging down the memory lane, he enquired about known landmarks like the community water well, 'pipal' tree and village mosque. Pain was palpable on his face when told that they had been rooted out in the aftermath of Partition. The father-son duo were accorded a warm welcome by hundreds of villagers who showered them with rose petals and children of a private school put up a special function in their honour. Recounting memories, Muhammad could not hold back his tears when mediapersons asked him to narrate the sequence of events during his migration from his ancestral village at the time of the Partition. "I still remember the bloody days during 1947, there were pools of blood all around and infants were crying sitting behind dead bodies of their mothers. No one had the courage to come to extend help to the crying infants. I was hardly 14-years-old and trembling," Muhammad said. in-depth coverage > India-Pakistan Cricket Series 2005 > |
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