Muslims, Hindus Join Hands to Help Bomb Blast Victims Nilofar Suhrawardy & Shahid Raza Burney, Arab News
NEW DELHI/JAIPUR/PUNE, 15 May 2008 %u2014 When Indian television news broadcasts appealed for blood donors yesterday, a day after 80 people were killed in bomb blasts in India%u2019s Jaipur city, Yaseef Khan rushed to help.
Khan insisted that someone check his blood type and use his blood to save a child, joining hundreds of volunteers in other hospitals in the historic city queuing to help the blast victims.
%u201CHow can I sit at home when people are crying for blood?%u201D Khan said.
Both Muslims like Khan and Hindus united yesterday to help victims of the bomb blasts, offering the use of their mobile phones, and distributing food and fruit juices as relatives swarmed hospitals of Jaipur from the early hours of the morning.
%u201CBombing cannot divide the Hindus and Muslims, it never succeeded and people should know that it is not going to work,%u201D Sohail Illyas, a Muslim man who lives in the walled city, said after meeting his Hindu neighbor following the blasts.
Asha Sharma, 32, was relieved when a young man came to her with his mobile phone, insisting that calls were free.
%u201CI was wondering how to inform mother that papa is all right, now I am happy,%u201D she said in Jaipur%u2019s main hospital.
Volunteers from the Sant Nirakari Mandal, a local voluntary organization made up of both Hindus and Muslims, distributed free medicines to
