'My dream came true': Indian woman to revisit Pakistan home after 75 years

Reena Varma, 92-year-old Indian citizen born in Pakistan, who after 75 years came to visit her ancestral home and school, speaks during an interview with Reuters, in Lahore, Pakistan July 16, 2022. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza

LAHORE (Reuters) - When 92-year old Indian citizen Reena Varma visits her childhood home in Pakistan this week, for the first time in 75 years, she will be the only one of her family to make it back home since they left shortly before partition divided the two nations.

"My dream came true," she said, adding her sister had died without ever being able to fulfil her wish to return to the home in the city of Rawalpindi they left when Varma was 15 years old.