AN extremely touching story on Jan 16 showed how a homeless cat in Russia saved the life of an abandoned baby.

The cat named ‘Masha’, living in a cardboard box in the hallway at the entrance of an apartment block in a Russian town, “warmed the baby for several hours with her body” when temperatures were several degrees centigrade below zero!

After hearing loud cries, as if a cat was meowing in distress, one of the residents opened her door and saw the baby on the floor, with the cat sitting beside it, licking it and trying to warm it. The infant was two to three months old and had been abandoned with clean clothes and a pack of nappies.

The residents are sure if the cat hadn’t taken care of it, the baby would most certainly have frozen to death.

The paramedics were called to take the baby to a hospital. When they took the child away in an ambulance, the cat started running after them.

How I wish the terrorists who kill our children could be imparted such kindness!

It is suggested that Pakistani TV channels and newspapers run a free information campaign showing the Russian cat and the baby side by side with the picture of a terrorist pointing a gun at a child. The first one should briefly state what the animal did while the second one must ask what law in the Holy Quran allows them to kill innocent children.If people like Mullah Fazlullah have any fear of Allah, they should hold talks with Sunni Ulema, as offered by the latter, to find out the correct Islamic viewpoint on jihad and about the killing of innocent men, women and children.

Our saving grace is we have people like Maulana Edhi who takes care of abandoned children.

Q. Iqbal

Karachi

Published in Dawn February 15th , 2015

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