Srinagar, February 27, 2023 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Muslim neighbours of a Kashmir Pandit, Sanjay Sharma, a bank guard, who was killed by unknown armed men in Achan village of Pulwama district, yesterday, helped his family members to perform the last rites on Monday. Local people said that Muslim neighbours came together to help perform the last rites of Sanjay Sharma.

Sharma’s family is the only Pandit family living in the village, and today his friends and the neighbours from the Muslim community took it upon themselves to help perform the last rites, local people said. The local residents shouldered Sharma’s coffin and arranged wood for the cremation. “He was one of us. We never thought of him as a KP. We arranged everything needed for the cremation,” said Mudasir Ahmad, a local resident.

He said they have lived alongside each other and done everything together. “We share a bond that goes back hundreds of years. When we heard this sad news, all of us rushed to console the family members and today arranged everything to help perform the last rites,” he added. Sanjay’s relatives also said that Muslims of the village always help them in times of need.

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