Well known Pakistani TV host and actor Fahad Mustafa has donated Rs 2 million for  the life-saving surgery of a three-year-old Hindu boy, Dipesh, according to a Dawn report.

The cost for the bone marrow transplant amounts to Rs 4 million, which has now been raised with the help of generous donors from Pakistan and abroad.

JDC Welfare Organisation founder Syed Zafar Abbas took responsibility for raising money for the child's surgery after his father's cries for help found but a few ears.

"A three-year-old Hindu boy, whose father is a veterinarian who treats people's animals for free, found himself in a position where he could not afford to save his own son's life. He was disheartened.

“So we appealed for a television show and the first person to call us after that was Fahad Mustafa," said Abbas in a video uploaded to the organization's Facebook page.

Donors from South Korea and Australia helped raise the remaining amount, he added, according to the report.

"He has as many fingers as my own child," Abbas said, holding the little boy.

 "He walks, talks and laughs just as my own son does. They're the same age. Should this child die only because he's not Muslim?"

The child suffers from thalassemia, he clarified, adding that he has just 15 months to get a bone marrow transplant or he will not make it.

A 15-month delay in the surgery would drop his chances of survival to roughly 10%, Abbas said. 
(SAM)