Daily Times

Quetta: A local man Suleman Khan from the Kachlak area in Quetta, was depicted as a hero earlier this week after he saved the lives of more than a 100 people stuck on snow-jammed roads of the area.

Three days ago, the Quetta-Zhob highway was shut down due to severe snowfall in the Kachlak, Ziarat Cross, Khanozai, and Kan Mehtarzai areas of the Balochistan province.

The situation of the roads were so worst that led hundreds of cars strand numb on the snowy ways, with women, children and elderly passengers left vulnerable in the harsh weather without adequate food supplies or cloth.

Khan, ignoring the blood-curdling cold not only rescued several passengers by driving them to safety in his own car, but in a gesture of kindness that has touched the hearts of many across the nation, also opened his home to them for food and shelter.

The 30-year-old reached the stranded passengers on his Sports Utility Vehicle, a Toyota Land Cruiser, and helped the people to safety and comfort of his home without any assistance from the authorities.

The kindness of Khan, however, knew no bounds, as he also helped get fuel, paid out of his own pocket, to people whose cars had broken down on the road in the severe cold, thereby playing a pivotal role in getting them to safety.

One of the people rescued by Khan spoke to sources that about the super-human efforts of the kind stranger. “I witnessed Khan rescue more than 100 people out of the snowstorm, including a little girl from a Danish School, who was then safely taken to her area of Khanozai,” said Habib Ullah, a driver who was stuck on the road.

Suleman Khan while talking to sources said that”I did everything for God”

Khan further said that he had been helping people on the National Highway since the last three days.

“I also saved a lot of cars, as I tied them to my own car, and dragged them out of the snow,” he added.

Khan took the rescued survivors to his home, where he gave them food and provided a place to sleep for the ones who had fallen ill.