Neither borders, nor religion, nor the bitterness of India-Pakistan relations could separate this relationship.
This love story started eight years back in 2015.
Naman Luthra, a lawyer by profession from Punjab, India and Shahleen Javed from Lahore, Pakistan are the two main characters of this story. The first meeting of both took place in 2015 and after about eight years in May 2023, both of them got married.
Naman is a Hindu while Shahleen is a Christian. That’s why both were married according to Hindu and Christian customs.
Naman and Shehleen had to face many difficulties before getting married and then the day came when Shehleen reached India for marriage and now she has decided to stay here.
Naman and Shahleen’s first meeting
Naman Luthra, who went to Lahore with his mother and grandmother, had his first meeting with Shahleen in 2015. Naman’s grandfather, a resident of Batala city of Punjab, was related to Lahore city of Punjab, Pakistan.
His grandfather had migrated to India after partition. That’s why Naman neither considers Pakistan as a stranger to him nor the people who live there.
About his first meeting with Shehleen, Naman said, “My maternal grandparents belong to Pakistan, but after partition they decided not to go to India and stayed back in Pakistan. Earlier living in Punjab, he decided to come to India after 1947 and he came here.”
According to Naman, in 2015 he went to Lahore with his mother and grandmother to meet their relatives, where he met Shehleen.
Shahleen is his distant relative. After this meeting, Naman came back to India, but he kept in touch with Shehleen online and soon this contact turned into love. After that both of them got engaged in 2016 with the consent of the family members. That ceremony took place in Pakistan.
Shahleen says that after the engagement, she came to India with her mother and aunt in 2018, where she met Naman’s family.