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Title: When a transgender was buried in an imambargah
Post by: stephaniec on February 01, 2016, 02:52:16 AM
When a transgender was buried in an imambargah

http://www.dawn.com/news/1235722/when-a-transgender-was-buried-in-an-imambargah

Dawn/By Akhtar Balouch — 02/01/2016

"Legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib had once suggested in one of his verses that he would like to see a Brahmin buried in the Ka'aba.

I don't know whether the Lund Baloch tribe of Mirpur Khas ever read Ghalib, but they partially fulfilled his wish by burying a Brahmin in their imambargah."