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Article: India, Pakistan reach agreement on travel policy.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- February 19, 2005
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Byline: Kim Barker
URI, India _ Sajad Ahmad Lone flipped through a photo album of 22 pictures, of his cousin in a pilot's cap, of his only living uncle in owl-like glasses. He looked at weddings and babies. He recited the names of his relatives, memorized from the backs of their photographs.
They were strangers. These people lived only about 200 miles away, but for Lone, sitting in his family's restaurant in a border town of Indian-controlled Kashmir, they could be on the other side of the world. He met just a few of them when he was a child, when his family made its only trip to Pakistan.
"I remember my uncle, but that's it," Lone said. "Now ...