With Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) emerging as the largest party in the initial results, his native village in India, Jatti Umra erupted in jubilations, the Indian media reported.
The residents of Jatti Umra, near Amritsar, are keeping a close eye on the election developments in the neighbouring country and have even started distributing sweets on listening to news that PML-N is heading for a landslide victory.
And they have a reason to celebrate, not only the Sharif family lived here but Nawaz also helped around two dozen youth of this village in getting jobs in Qatar and other gulf countries . Besides they believe that with Nawaz in power in Pakistan, the relations between the two countries will improve.
The Sharif family had migrated to Pakistan before partition where he was born in Lahore on December 25, 1949. When Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had gone to Pakistan accompanied by then prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in bus on March 20 1999, he had taken the soil of Jatti Umra village for Nawaz, the then prime minister of Pakistan. The Sharif family house was later converted into a gurdwara.
