This is the first of three shows exploring Indian painting in the wake of the nation's 1947 independence, the partition and creation of Pakistan and the violence that followed.
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The Delhi-born son of an Urdu-speaking family that migrated to Pakistan after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, Pervez Musharraf survived numerous assassination attempts and plots against him during his time in power.
The MQM is based in Sindh province, with a membership mostly comprising the descendants of Urdu-speaking migrants to Pakistan at the time of the partition of British India in 1947.
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Soon after the partition of mainly Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan in 1947, the two countries fought a war over the predominantly Muslim but Hindu-ruled province of Kashmir.
The obsession with the unfinished business of partition (Kashmir) has been no small factor in the descent of Pakistan into religious and political extremism.
This week marks Indian independence from British rule and the partition that created the nations of India and Pakistan.
The doctor, who was born in Ajmer, was in Pakistan at the time of the partition in 1947 and did not return until 1992 when he came to visit his ailing mother.
Though the Indo-Pakistan dispute is rooted in the Partition of 1947, it has been fueled through the years by the conflict over Kashmir as well as the emergence of Bangladesh, which broke away from Islamabad's grip in 1971 with Indian military support.
The country's 120 million Muslims became the target, not only because they are the largest minority but also due to the residual animus against them from the 1947 partition of the subcontinent, in which the Muslim state of Pakistan was created.
After India's partition in 1947, when Chittagong became part of what was then East Pakistan, reputable local citizens were allowed to become members.
While making a radio series on the trauma of the partition of British India, and the resulting violence amid which India and Pakistan gained independence, Andrew visited an ashram, a place of retreat, and by chance met a group of women widowed at that time, who have been living in institutions ever since.
After partition when Pakistan, which included Bangladesh, split off from India in 1947 most of the remaining Hindu merchants left, abandoning their homes.
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