LONDON, Sep 13 (APP):The Namaz-i-Janaza of Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, the wife of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was offered here at Regent’s Park Mosque on Thursday afternoon.
The funeral prayer was offered by her sons Hasan Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz, PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif, former finance minister Ishaq Dar, PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a large number of people belonging to different walks of life, diplomats, British Pakistani councillors, parliamentarians and former ministers, journalists, officials of Pakistan High Commission London, PML-N workers and overseas Pakistanis.
A larger number of women also came to the mosque to attend the funeral prayers.
The dead body of the former first lady, who passed away on Tuesday morning here at Harley Street
Clinic after losing the battle with cancer was brought to the mosque at about 12.15 p.m.for offering the
funeral prayer.
The party sources said that Begum Kulsoom Nawaz’s body would be flown to Lahore’s Jati
Umrah, where she would be laid to rest at the ancestral graveyard on Friday.
Hassan Nawaz, Hussain Nawaz and Ishaq Dar were not accompany the body of Begum Kulsoom Nawaz
to Lahore , the party sources said.
Shehbaz Sharif had reached London on Wedeneday night for bringing back Begum Kulsoom Nawaz’s body
to Pakistan.
People belonging to various walks of life including women on the occasion paid tribute to late Begum Kulsoom Nawaz for her struggle for restoration of democracy in the country.
They said she was a brave lady who stood against the dictatorship and led the party in the hour of political crisis.
They said that she was a modest, God fearing, and an honest woman, who was a role model for
the female segment of society in Pakistan.
They prayed to Allah Almighty to rest the departed soul in eternal peace and grant fortitude to the family to bear this loss with equanimity.