LAHORE: The arrangements are in final stage for funeral prayers of former first lady Begum Kulsoom Nawaz. Held today at the Sharif Medical City at 05:00 pm.
The flight carrying Kulsoom Nawaz’s body arrived at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport in wee hours on Friday (today). They shifted the body later to Jati Umra, Sharif Family’s ancestral home.
As per details, 13 members of Sharif family, including Shehbaz Sharif, Asma Nawaz, sons of Husssain Nawaz. And other relatives have come to Pakistan along with the casket via PIA flight PK 758.
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Kulsoom, 68, wife of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, breathed her last on Sept 11. At London’s Harley Street Clinic after a long battle with cancer.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, released on parole from Adiala Jail, is at Sharif Medical City. To oversee the arrangements and meeting with the people coming for the condolence.
Renowned Islamic scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel will lead the prayers.
A special security plan chalked out ahead of the funeral to avert any untoward incident.
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Nawaz Sharif’s sons Hassan and Hussain Nawaz won’t be attending the last rituals of their mother in Pakistan owing to legal complications.
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Funeral in London
On Friday, Kulsoom Nawaz’s funeral prayers offered at the Regents Park Mosque (Islamic Cultural Centre) in London.
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of the former first lady Kulsoom Nawaz including former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, Hasan and Hussain Nawaz, former finance minister Ishaq Dar, former Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar, former federal minister Berjees Tahir, former AJK prime minister Chaudhary Abdul Majeed, PTI London President Barrister Waheed Miah and representatives of religious and political parties attended the funeral.