With eyes staring at entrance gate and heart aching for close sibling, the dwellers of old homes spent another Eid in deep desire to have someone loving besides them whose warmth they could feel.
When people were enjoying Eid with families and friends, there were a few living in deep anguish and pain – abandoned by their dear ones and forced to live at an Old Home.
Living at a charity home becomes more painful when your own children, for whom you had toiled hard whole of life, are very much in the same vicinity or the city and refuse to even own and recognize you.
It was at Pakistan Baitul Mall (PBM) Old Home, Lahore when Mr ‘Sha’ passed away in January this year after nine years long association with Old Home. But, none of his heirs were ready to receive his body.
“We called his only son who lives here in Lahore and asked him to take his body for burial. But, his reply was agonizing,” informed Assistant Director Old Homes, Talat Ghauri. “His son stated, ‘why you called us. He had died for us 15 years back. Please bury him yourselves.”
It was also painful to know that Mr ‘Sha’ had not mentioned his son’s name in the list of heirs but his cousin, a doctor – whatever the reasons but this situation can have multiple dimensions. Why an end to someone like Mr ‘Sha,’ – is it paying back by the Nature for some evil deeds he might had committed in his youth to his parents or it is a Nature’s test for ‘Mr Sha’s children to prove their allegiance.—APP
