'The coffin of a promising young Pakistani Hindu social worker, killed in the recent airliner crash here, has been marked as "kaafir" or infidel, causing anguish and revulsion among his friends and netizens.
Prem Chand, 25, a bright spark from the minority Hindu community, was a member of the National Youth Parliament and was heading to Islamabad from Karachi to attend the organisation's last session when the Airblue flight crashed into the Margalla Hills on July 28, killing all 152 people on board.
Ehsan Naveed Irfan, a youth parliamentarian who identified Prem Chand's body, said the coffin was first marked in black with the word "kaafir" and this was then highlighted in red.'
It is odd how so many of the people of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan are so intolerant of anyone from a religion other than Islam, whilst India has Parliamentarians of Hindu, Sikh, Muslim and other backgrounds. Since 1948 one country has become a pluralist democracy, the other lurches in and out of theocratic control. And yet the BBC will take Pakistan's side in any dispute with India or indeed the UK, just as they side with any Arab country or organisation in any dispute with Israel; do you really not know why?
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Haven't seen this on the BBC yet !
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