Muslims perform last rites of Kashmiri Pandit woman in Kulgam
Muslims and Kashmiri Pandits continued to uphold the age-old bond of brotherhood and communal harmony by jointly performing the last rites of an 84-year-old Kashmir Pandit woman at Kahrote village of South Kashmir's Kulgam district on Saturday.
Local sources told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the elderly Pandit woman, Soni Raina, wife of Badrinath Raina, was suffering from diabetes and passed away today.
The family did not migrate in the 1990s, and she left behind five children.
The local Muslims organized and performed her last rites, mourning her death as one of their own, and arranged wood for the cremation in the village.
Badrinath Raina, husband of the deceased, said, "We have a strong connection with the Muslim community here in our village. The bond of...