I would like in particular to point out to all our readers that this disaster should help us realise that our destiny is together although we live in two separate sovereign states. Babar Mumtaz, a PPAD committee member, reminded us all about the earthquakes in Turkey and Greece last year, which caused so much suffering to the people. But as the two countries rendered help to each other, they entered into a more friendly equation in the aftermath. Things have been improving between them ever since. He hoped that something similar would happen in our part of the world too.
Man is essentially rational and accommodative.
In times of tragedies, even those who are otherwise communally motivated display their saner instincts. There was no conflict over their division. Considering the fact that most of them were Muslim, slips of paper, containing a number each, were attached to them. The first 10 bodies were handed over to activists from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, who took them to the local cremation ground and numbers 11 to 77 went to Muslim religious leaders. Reasonableness dominates all communities.