Bhuj nagarpalika to cremate disowned Pakistan boy's body

Ahmedabad: The body of the 13-year-old Pakistani boy, Dado Bheel, found near the Indo-Pak border at Biar Bet in Kutch on May 14, has been handed over for cremation to the Bhuj nagarpalika as the Pakistanis have remained intransigent in refusing to accept the body.
The boy is thought to be of the minority Hindu community, based in Pakistan's Sindh province.Pakistan rangers disclaimed the body because the boy had not been circumcised. Sub-inspector M K Chaudhary of the Khavda police station said that the body couldn't be kept in morgue any longer. "We released the body to the Bhuj nagarpalika because nobody has claimed the body," he said.
BSF officials said that Pakistan rangers - with whom more than five flag meetings have been held - are still insisting that the boy can't be Muslim and hence can't be Pakistani.
The body had been kept at a morgue in Bhuj under the supervision of Khavda police. Over ten days, BSF officials relentlessly tried to persuade their Pakistani counterparts to accept the body.
The efforts of the BSF proved futile even after Pakistan's own newspapers reported that the boy was a Pakistani Hindu from the Chhai Chapro village in Pakistan's Sindh province. According to BSF officials, though footprints trailed in from the Pakistani side where the boy was found near the border, the rangers were obdurate throughout.
"According to the primary postmortem, there was not a grain of food in the boy's stomach. He could have died of dehydration," said a BSF official.
The Pakistani newspapers that tracked down the boy's family quoted the boy's father, Dongro Bheel, as saying that his son had been missing for days. But, disturbingly, the Pakistan rangers refused to budge. In the last flag meeting held about four days back, the rangers said they had no orders to take the body.