After a gap of 40 years, the Munnabao-Khokhrapar train service took off from Jaipur on February 17. Called the Thar Express, it will link divided families in the region of Sindh in Pakistan and Rajasthan in India. The last time Batul Bano visited her family and ancestral home in Rajasthan was just before the India-Pakistan 1965 war broke out.
