A file photo of a grave. PHOTO:FILE
A week ago, the family of 70-year-old labourer Sadiq Mughal of Nara Kot Kotli area of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) was in mourning. It was the qul, or third day, after Mughal’s death – or so they thought.
“But then we received a phone call that our father was still alive,” said Mughal’s eldest son. Hundreds thronged the family’s home as Sadiq was brought back and his sons distributed sweets among those gathered.
Six days ago, a man matching Sadiq’s description was found near the River Jhelum, where he had been working as a labourer. “Our relatives in Dadayal (190 kilometers away) informed us that a body that resembled our father had been found,” Sadiq’s son said.
The body was retrieved and buried. “We are happy that our father is alive, but at the same time we are unhappy on account of the man we buried,” Sadiq’s son said.
When The Express Tribune contacted the area’s health officials, they said the buried man cannot be exhumed without the filing of a complaint.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 31st, 2014.
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I'm outta words!
@M@NI: Bro you can find thousand other reasons to ridicule Pakistan but I dont see anything absurd in this news. They took some look-alike as their father and buried him but then their father returned after a day. its as simple as that. what it has to do with situation of Pakistan. plz stop criticizing pakistan and pakistanis for every other thing you come across.
It is not possible how could he manage to go out
I think I will try to explain this story to the people who are too confused by the accounts. A dead body was found near an area where the father of the family in the story used to work. It is possible that the condition of the body was such that it could not be exactly identified. Since some people do look a lot like each other when they are alive, it is likely that the relatives who live around Dadayal mistook the dead body for their deceased relative. They sent the body to his family and by that time it was either swollen, if found in water, or deteriorated beyond exact recognition. During that time the Sadiq, the laborer, was either busy working in whatever trade he was employed with or was travelling or in transit. So when he reached his home he had no idea that his relatives in Dadayal or his family were considering him to be dead so he never thought about calling them somehow, if the services were even available in his village .... phew .... hope this explanation helps the skeptics.
Did they not see the face on the body before rituals and burying ? There seems to more to it than that meets the eye .
How it could be happened? If the father was alive then who one that buried the family? & why they could do so they didn't see or know about their father,,How could mean that story is..
Wow... N whos the writer of the story?? :@
This happens everywhere around the world M@ni. Grow up
So who was the poor man who got buried? Was he really dead?
wth :/
Where was this man previously? Incomplete news.
It can happen , Only in Pakistan
huh ?