Hundreds attend funeral prayers of Nawaz’s wife in London

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Hundreds attend funeral prayers of Nawaz’s wife in London

Friday, 14 September 2018 | PTI | London/Lahore

Hundreds of people attended the funeral prayers of Begum Kulsoom Nawaz - the wife of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif - at a London mosque Thursday, as legal formalities were completed to take her body to Pakistan for burial.

The funeral prayers at London’s Regent Park mosque, which is separate from another one to take place in Lahore Friday, were attended by her sons Hassan and Hussain, brother-in-law Shehbaz Sharif, former ministers Chaudhry Nisar and Ishaq Dar among others.

Hundreds of local Pakistanis turned up at the mosque to attend the funeral. They chanted slogans of ‘we salute to the mother of democracy’.

Kulsoom died Tuesday in a London hospital after a long battle with cancer. She was 68. She would be buried on Friday in the Jati Umra Lahore residence of the Sharif family. She will be laid to rest near the graves of her father-in-law Mian Sharif and brother-in-law Abbas Sharif.

Her body will be flown back to Pakistan Thursday night on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight scheduled to depart from Heathrow Airport for Lahore.

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