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RAWALPINDI, Dec 17 (APP):Senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Ibn Muhammad Rizvi was laid to rest at Shah Ki Talliyan Graveyard on Wednesday.
The funeral prayers were offered at Liaquat Bagh Ground, where a large number of political leaders, party workers, relatives and admirers gathered to pay their last respects.
Ibn Muhammad Rizvi, who breathed his last on Tuesday, was a former office secretary at the PPP Central Secretariat. He was the younger brother of late Pakistan Television controller Aun Muhammad Rizvi and Syed Shamim Haider.
Several prominent political and social figures attended the funeral, including former senator Farhatullah Babar, Member of the National Assembly Barrister Daniyal Chaudhry, Member of the Provincial Assembly Raja Muhammad Hanif Advocate, Dr Safdar Abbasi, Malik Mazhar Hussain, Sheikh Rasheed, Dr Jamal Nasir, Zamarud Khan and Babar Awan, along with senior PPP leaders, lawyers, journalists and people from different walks of life.
Speaking to reporters, attendees described Rizvi as an important political figure whose services to the party would be remembered, adding that his death was an irreparable loss for the PPP and the country’s political landscape.
Prayers were offered for the departed soul and for patience and fortitude for the bereaved family.