Story of Pakistani Hindu soldier who died fighting goes viral
ISLAMABAD:The story of a young Hindu man who joined the Pakistan Army and was killed in the line of duty earlier this month has gone viral on social media.
Lance Naik Lal Chand Rabari, 27, was an emotional young man who breathed his last while serving on the Mangla front near Pakistanoccupied Kashmir. While he died on active duty, the exact circumstances of his death could not immediately be ascertained.
Lal Chand, a resident of Ismail Khan Nautkani village in Badin district of Sindh province, was the fifth of 11 children of a poor shepherd father and a farmer mother. Bhemon Rabari, his elder brother, said Lal Chand earlier served in the Waziristan tribal region, where he desired to crush militants who had caused damage and inflicted losses on the country.
“I would take revenge for every drop of blood from those who have inflicted loss to the children and people of our country,” Lal Chand said when he returned from his posting in Waziristan.
After passing the matriculation examination in 2009, Lal Chand went to Badin from his village without informing his family and applied to join the army. He graduated while serving in the army.
Lal Chand used to encourage his two younger brothers, currently studying in class 11 and class 7, to join the army. “The country we are living in is like our home and whosoever would attack it would have to face serious retaliation till the last breath in my body,” he had reportedly said.