NewzIn 1948, amidst raging communal riots, a young Parsi man and his friends secretly spirited away a life-size bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Karachi.
The account of how the statue was hidden and preserved was recounted by former Indian diplomat G Parthasarathy.
The event highlights the survival of one of only two statues of Bapu in Pakistan during a period of intense sectarian violence.
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