Plane carrying Kulsoom Nawaz's casket leaves for Pakistan
Family of the deceased received a death certificate issued by Londons private hospital.
LONDON (Dunya News) – Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-758 carrying Kulsoom Nawaz’s casket has on Thursday left for Pakistan after a delay of nearly five hours.
The family of the deceased received a death certificate issued by London’s private hospital and the ‘out-of-England’ letters from the coroner’s court.
Earlier, large number of mourners attended Kulsoom Nawaz’s funeral prayers held in mosque located in Regent’s Park. Family members and prominent political figures including Hussain Nawaz, Hassan Nawaz, former Punjab CM Shehbaz Sharif, former finance minister Ishaq Dar and Ch Nisar attended the last rituals of former first lady.
The legal complications have restrained Hussain Nawaz and Hassan Nawaz from attending Kulsoom’s funeral prayers in Lahore as both have been declared proclaimed absconders by an accountability court.
Nawaz oversees arrangements for Kulsoom s funeral in Lahore
On the other hand, Nawaz Sharif is overseeing arrangements for Kulsoom Nawaz’s funeral in Lahore.
Earlier today, ousted premier paid visit to Sharif Medical City to oversee and finalized arrangements for his late wife’s last rites.
PML-N Spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb told media Begum Kulsoom s funeral in Lahore would be held at Sharif Medical city adjacent to the family s Jati Umra residence on Friday at 5pm.
Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, the wife of former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, passed away at London’s Harley Street Clinic on Tuesday after a prolonged battle with cancer.
Kulsoom was born in 1950 in Lahore to a Kashmiri family. She attended Islamia College and graduated from Forman Christian College in Lahore. She also received a Master’s degree in Urdu from the University of the Punjab in 1970.
She married Nawaz Sharif in 1971, and served as the president of the PML-N from 1999 to 2002.
Kulsoom had remained the first lady of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms from 1990-1993, 1997-1999 and 2013-2017.
After the disqualification of Sharif from Supreme Court last year, Kulsoom Nawaz was given party ticket to contest by-election from NA-120 while she was under treatment in London. Kulsoom was elected to Lahore’s NA-120 constituency in a by-poll against Dr Yasmin Rashid of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) among other candidates. However; she was unable to return due to her illness.
Her election campaign was run by her daughter, Maryam Nawaz.
