LAHORE: (Friday, October 20, 2023): Punjab University Pakistan Study Centre organized an international symposium of Young Scholars in the memory of 1947 migration and refugee rehabilitation. PU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Khaild Mahmood, Former Dean Prof Dr Muhammad Iqbal Chawla, Director Pakistan Study Centre Prof Dr Naumana Kiran, Associate Professor Dr Amjad Abbas Khan Magsi, Masooma Zafar PhD scholar from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, PhD scholar from Concordia University, Canada Sunjay Mathuria, Dr Tahir Khan from Virtual University of Pakistan, faculty members and researchers were also present on the occasion. In his address, Dr Khaild Mahmood said that it was a huge migration; thousands of Muslims were killed during the migration process. He said that it was a great challenge for the new born country to rehabilitate the migrants. He appreciated Pakistan Study Centre on holding International Symposium on this very important theme. In his keynote lecture, Dr Muhammad Iqbal Chawla focused on the extensive historical literature in Partition Studies. He highlighted historiography on partition and migration. He said that initially historians focused on documenting the contributions of key figures within the British administration, Muslim League, Congress and Sikhs, which was followed by regional history. The past four decades have seen key developments in the literature on Partition that has especially addressed gender issues and developments at the local level, he added. He said that the Partition of India in 1947 resulted in not only division of Punjab that created a permanent seeds of enmity between India and Pakistan. Division of two majority provinces of Punjab and Bengal resulted in a massive cross-border migration, which was accompanied by outbreaks of violence, looting, and the displacement of millions of people, he added. Prof Dr Naumana Kiran welcomed the participants and shed light on the purpose and theme of the symposium. She said that it would serve as a forum for young scholars and would be source of paying gratitude to our ancestors whose sacrifices contributed a lot to make our beloved homeland. Sunjay Mathuria discussed the ways in which memories are narrated in cities that have experienced conflict or a traumatic event and alternate forms of memory-making. Masooma Zafar was of the view that in the past decade, partition historiography has undergone a significant shift commonly referred to a new history of the partition. Dr Tahir Khan brought to light the refugee-settlement policies, designed by Ayub Khan Regime, which took a lot of initiatives to accommodate refugees on an emergency basis while attempting to redefine the state policy towards refugees’ rehabilitation and settlement.