Summary Pakistan’s prominent singer Mehnaz Begum has been laid to rest in Karachi on Monday.
KARACHI: Her funeral prayer was offered in Khairul Amal Masjid at Ancholi area. She was buried in Wadi-e-Hussain graveyard near Karachi Super Highway.
The well-known playback singer breathed her last on Saturday after a protracted illness. She was being shifted to the United States from Bahrain for treatment when her condition worsened.
Born in 1958 in Karachi, Mehnaz Begum sung a variety of genres but specialized in ghazal, thumri, dadra, khayal, drupad and reciting salam, noha and marsiya. She was the daughter of celebrated sub-continental singer Kajjan Begum.
Legendary songstress Mehnaz Begum s body arrived on Monday who had passed away in Bahrain on Saturday while on her way to United States for medical treatment arrived in Karachi two days after her death.
