Ministers from India have lavished praise on a Pakistani national for rescuing the lives of about seventeen Indian pilgrims who were about to perish in Makkah’s intense heat earlier this year while performing the Hajj.
Asif Bashir, a young Pakistani from Peshawar who works as a database supervisor at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was also volunteering to help pilgrims during the Hajj.
The 32-year-old government employee created history by saving lives with extraordinary bravery and compassion. He gave pilgrims water, life-saving medications, and even carried them on his shoulder for a distance of three to four kilometers.
He prevented the deaths of about twenty-six pilgrims who had passed out from the intense heat. There were seventeen Indians among the pilgrims.
