Pakistan’s only self-declared Jew is fighting an uphill battle to maintain Jewish cemetery from encroaching Muslim graveyard. Engineer Fishel (Faisal) Benkhald, a Pakistani who according to his own estimation is the last Jew in the Muslim country, is struggling to preserve the Jewish cemetery in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city with a population of 20 million . Benkhald, whose father was Muslim and whose mother was an Iranian Jew, told the British The Guardian  last Friday that he grew up in Karachi and identifies as a Jew, even though his Pakistani ID lists him as Muslim. “I want the...
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