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| Kin of Samjhauta victims return... |
| One familiar figure that stepped out of the Delhi-Lahore bus was Rana Shaukat Ali. He had made the same trip last year with his wife and six children.
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| INDIA
, 18-February-2008
1:4:33 AM |
| On the night of February 18 last year, a train that bridged the border between India and Pakistan became the target of a terror attack, leaving 68 people dead.
Even as the police continued to try and track down the perpetrators of the crime, people who lost everything after the Samjhauta blasts returned to the scene of the tragedy to mourn.
One familiar figure that stepped out of the Delhi-Lahore bus was Rana Shaukat Ali. He had made the same trip last year with his wife and six children.
But that trip had ended badly. They had boarded the Samjhauta Express for the return trip, but just two hours later, his world exploded and he lost five children.
Today, he returned to pray for those children.
''The ones who got killed were innocent people. They have sacrificed their lives. It's no ordinary death,'' said Ali, a Pakistan national.
''I have come back for the sake of my children,'' he said.
Twenty-nine passengers of that bus were buried in a place 70 kms from Delhi, near Panipat. Twenty-three of them were never identified.
Even today, their graves are marked by numbers. But Shakoor Ahmed, the caretaker, prays for them all the same.
''I believe these people had some connection with this land. I pray for these people, it is our duty, they are innocent victims of terrorism,'' said Shakoor Ahmed, the caretaker of the Mehrana graveyard.
For the police, it's still an unsolved crime. They have questioned 300 people, but all they have are some leads that go nowhere.
''It is a very difficult case, there were no evidences as such. The only one we had was a suitcase, which had a name Kodak, and a watch,'' said Bharati Arora, SSP railway Police Haryana.
The burnt coaches still narrate the story and stand testimony to that horrific night. Investigators are still grappling in the dark but one thing is certain that this will go down as one of the most barbaric terror strikes in the history of India.
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