Bandipora: The Muslim neighbourhood in Ajas locality of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district helped perform the last rites of an elderly Kashmiri Pandit woman on Friday.
Rattan Rani Bhat (90), wife of Late Kashi Nath Bhat breathed her last at her home at Ajas in the wee hours on Friday, plunging the whole locality in mourning.
Soon after the news of her death spread, the Muslims neighbours made special arrangements for performing her last rites.
According to the KNO, the son of Rani Bhat while thanking the local Muslims, said “I have never felt alone here for the past several years despite militancy and the claims of local Pandits being harassed elsewhere.”
He said that he is proud and thankful that he did not leave the Kashmir Valley. Commenting further on the communal harmony in Kashmir he said, I am very thankful to them.
“We were one and shared a great camaraderie. Our families used to visit each other, eat together and we always remained together in happiness and sorrow. We lost a friend, a well-wisher and a noble soul and the entire area is saddened by his death,” Mohammad Ashraf, a resident of Ajas said.
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