From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1948: Seventy-five years ago: PM's gateside guests.

A GROUP of miserable human beings, two men, two women and a few children, some squatting, some stretched out forlornly on ragged, unspeakably dirty tatters which were once some kind of bedclothes was the unusual sight right in front of the Pakistan Prime Minister's residence on fashionable Victoria Road, Karachi... . I walked up to them to investigate and heard a long story which, in short, was this.

Some months ago these people set out on the long trek from Patiala to Pakistan. 'One lakh Muslims in our kafila were killed on the way,' said a woman; maybe she exaggerated, but one got the general idea. ... But these people got away...