KARACHI: 5TH NOVEMBER 2010
MQM Convener Dr. Imran Farooq Shaheed will be laid to rest in Shuhada (martyrs) graveyard at Yasinabad Karachi. The mortal remains of Dr. Imran Farooq shall arrive in Karachi through PIA flight number PK- 788 on Saturday at 9:30 PST: am from London. Deputy Convener of MQM Dr. Farooq Sattar, members of Co-ordination Committee Wasay Jalil and Raza Haroon, family members of Dr. Imran Farooq including his widow Shumaila Imran, his sons, father, mother and sister will also arrive from the same flight.
The dead body will be received at Quid-e-Azam International Airport Karachi by members of the Co-ordination Committee, Federal and Provincial Ministers, Parliamentarians and other office-bearers of the party. The dead body shall be brought to the head office of MQM at Nine Zero Azizabad. The funeral prayer will be held at Jinnah Ground Azizabad where a monument has been built in memory of all the martyrs of MQM.
After the funeral prayer Dr. Imran Farooq will be laid to rest at his last abode in a graveyard in Yasinabad, Azizabad where hundreds of other martyrs of MQM are buried. A large number of MQM workers and office bearers have begun to arrive in Karachi from all the four provinces and Azad Kashmir. Workers of different wings of MQM are busy in giving final shape to the arrangement of the funeral of their Convener. The Co-ordination Committee has appealed to MQM workers and supporters to take part in the funeral in large numbers in order to pay homage and respect to Dr. Imran Farooq Shaheed.