A nondescript village in Punjab’s border Tarn Taran district is getting a facelift to welcome its VIP visitor this Sunday.
Pakistan Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the younger brother of Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is scheduled to visit Jatti Umra, the ancestral village of the Sharif family. The village, comprising mostly Sikh families now, celebrated the election of Nawaz Sharif as Pakistan’s Prime Minister in May this year by distributing of sweets and dancing bhangra to dhol beats.
Sharif family migrated from Jatti Umra before Partition, and creation of Pakistan in August 1947. Shahbaz Sharif was scheduled to visit Punjab December last year also but his visit was cancelled at the last minute owing to “health reasons”.