Daughter of Kargil martyr Gurmehar Kaur pushes for India-Pakistan peace – Jalandhar teen goes viral with her campaign (With video)

May 2, 2016, NewsCrunch

Jalandhar teenager Gurmehar Kaur, who lost her father Capt Mandeep Singh, in 1999 Kargil war, has gone viral by campaigning for India-Pakistan peace.

In a four-minute video, she holds up a succession of placards, sharing her personal journey of transformation, which saw her shift from hate to love.

Gurmehar Kaur, was just two when she lost her father. That made her hate Pakistanand also Muslims thinking all of them 'were Pakistanis'.

In the video, Gurmehar Kaur says when she was six, she tried to stab a lady in a burqa holding her responsible for her father's death. Her mother held her back and made her understand it was war, not Pakistan, that killed her

“It took me a while to know, but today I do, I have learnt to let go of my hate," says Gurmehar Kaur.

She is critical of the leadership in Indiaand Pakistanand says she longs to live in a world, in which there are no Gurmehar Kaurs who miss their dads.

The video has been produced by Mumbai-based peace activist Ram Subramanian.

Tribunenotes that Gurmehar Kaur, a budding tennis player, is pursuing plus two in Commerce. It quotes her uncle Prof Davinderdeep Singh, who teaches English literature at Nakodar's DAVCollege, saying she was mature beyond her years.

Gurmehar Kaur has a sister Bani, who was just five months old at the time of Capt Mandeep died.