By News Agency of Kashmir
Srinagar: The oldest surviving Kashmiri – 154 year old – man breathed his last today after a in a remote village of Pulwama district in South Kashmir, this morning.
Informed sources told News Agency of Kashmir that the oldest surviving Kashmiri Abdul Gani Bhat, 154 yrs, resident of Bumara, Pulwama died today after a brief illness, at his native village.
Though there is no official record of his age, locals recalled that the deceased used to tell them that he was working in Pakistan as a labourer before the borders were drawn between the two countries.
According to the locals, Bhat who from the last one decade had lost power of hearing was spending the days with his brother. “He used to tell us the stories as how he used to go Pakistan’s Lahore city for working before partition,” a family member of Bhat told News Agency of Kashmir, adding that he was so healthy upto late nineties when he used to work in fields for hours together.
Soon after the news of his death spread in the area, people in thousands throng to Bumara and attend his Nama-e-ze Jenaza, sources added.
One of the villager claimed that Bhat had remained an associate of his grandfather who was a merchant, adding, that he (his grandfather) used to go for trade across the border and Gani was working as Labrour with him.