August 14 deserves to be recorded as a day of immense historical significance in the recent past when Pakistan was born and India was partitioned in 1947. It is an irony that people tend to forget most of the tragedies that have befallen Indian civilization. Although, India now represents one of the oldest living civilization along with China, formation of Pakistan symbolizes its receding boundaries and threatened future. The gory incidents of riots, arsons, loot and massacres finally which got culminated into partition of India again saw more and more violence and killings as its aftermath. In the bloodbath that occurred in the course of these events more than five million innocent people are estimated to have been killed.  The gory chapters of partition were written by the pre-planned attacks by the Muslim League backed by Muslim masses, Police and local administration in collusion with the state governments in the Muslim dominated provinces aiming at ethnically cleansing these provinces of non-Muslim population.

Disturbances in Lahore started as soon as the 3rd June plan was announced forcing Hindus and Sikhs to migrate. Despite the assurances of peace given by the Muslim League violence continued and on 10th July Lahore Loco Workshop was attacked killing seven Hindus and Sikhs. The Hindus and Sikhs who were not willing to leave their land of ancestors were butchered to death.  Muslim anti -social elements along with Muslim National Guards and Baluch Military participated in the killings. Gurudwaras were attacked and burned along with the devotees inside (as in the case of Chhevi Padshahi Gurudwara). There is documented evidence of daily murder, loot and arsons in which non-Muslims were targeted. The trains carrying the fleeing people out were also repeatedly attacked and thousands of Hindus and Sikhs were massacred with the railway tracks heaped with corpses. The organised movements of the Muslim mobs along with Muslim League leaders and police even reached countryside indulging in killing, pillaging, arsoning, raping and abducting non-Muslim women, and brutal cleansing of   the villages of the Hindu and Sikh population. The gruesome incidents in the villages of Wanteo, Killa Gunjan, Manihala Jamsher Kalan, Talwandi, Bhuchoke, Janga Araian, Pajjian, Gohawa, Sangran, Ganje Sandh, Raja Jang, Halloke, Chhappa , Narwar, Padhana etc. exposed the sinister designs of the Muslim League wherein it was aimed to realize their much touted aim that ‘koi Sikh rehne na pae Maghribi Punjab men' (Let no Sikh be allowed to remain in the Western Punjab). The angst of the Muslim marauders against the Sikhs was particularly severe, massively brutal, because they considered the Sikhs as their traditional enemies and even the sword arm of the Hindus.

Similar patterns of pre-planned and organised attacks were witnessed in other districts of Punjab. The districts of Amritsar, Shiekhupura, Lyallpur, Gujranwala, Montgomery, Sialkot, Mianwali, Jhang, Jhelum, Multan and Muzaffargarh, Gujrat, Sargodha etc. saw the Muslim mobs descending on the Hindu-Sikh population well armed and well prepared catching them unaware of the things to come. A large number of brutal massacres were organized by the Muslim League leadership which often led the mobs aided the police and law and order machinery killing large number of non-Muslims indiscriminately. A brief account of some of the most horrible massacres is given below: