Times of Islamabad

Amid border tensions, India Pakistan cross border Sikh marriage

Amid border tensions, India Pakistan cross border Sikh marriage

ISLAMABAD – A 33-year-old man from Haryana is all set to tie the knot witha woman from Sialkot in Pakistan.

The marriage between Parvinder Singh, a telecom contractor and resident ofTepla village in Ambala, will be solemnised by the end of this week at agurdwara in Patiala as per Sikh tradition with Kiran Sarjeet (27) who alongwith her family reached India via Samjhauta Express on Thursday.

The two got engaged in 2016 when Sarjeet visited her maternal uncle’s houseat Samana in Patiala.

Parvinder, who is the youngest of three siblings, said he had known Sarjeetfor long since she is a distant relative of his aunt (wife of father’syounger brother).

Her family had stayed back in Sialkot during Partition in 1947, he says.