CM father laid to rest

Lahore : The father of Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and former MPA Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Buzdar died today after a protracted illness.

His funeral prayer was offered at Taunsa Sharif Stadium in which Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, ministers, assembly members, notables of the area and a large number of people were present.

Senior politician Jahangir Tareen, provincial ministers including Mehmood-ur-Rasheed, Sibtain Khan, Hasnain Bahadur Dreshak, Sardar Mohsin Khan Leghari, Ijaz Alam, Sami Ullah, health advisor Hanif Khan Pitafi, Aun Chaudhry, district PTI president Malik Iqbal Saqib, assembly members including Khawaja Sheraz Mahmood, Sardar Jaffar Khan Leghari, Ashraf Khan Rind, Ghulam Murtaza Rahim Khar, Malik Qasim Hinjra, Mian Alam Dar Qureshi, Ahmad Ali Aulakh and Akhwand Humayun Raza, Sardar Ahmad Ali Dreshak, Aun Abbas, spokesman to CM Dr. Shahbaz Gill, Dr. Qadir Malik, Chief Secretary, IG police, additional chief secretary, principal secretary to CM, special secretary to CM, commissioner and RPO DG Khan, RPO Multan, DC DG Khan, DC Muzaffargarh and thousands of people also offered funeral prayer. Haji Fazal Hussain led the funeral prayer. Afterward, the body was taken to his ancestral area Barthi where funeral prayer was again offered. The funeral of Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan was laid to rest in the ground of his ancestral residence.

Mir Badshah Qaisrani, Barrister Imam Bakhsh Qaisrani, Ahmad Ali Dreshak, ACS, Principal Secretary to CM, Labor Minister Ansar Majeed, provincial minister for food Sami Ullah Chaudhry, assembly members and a large number of people attended the funeral prayer.

Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Buzdar was born in DG Khan and got his MA Political Science degree from Karachi University in 1964. He thrice remained Member Punjab Assembly in 1985, 2002 and 2008. Meanwhile, President Arif Alvi, Prime Minister Imran Khan, Army Chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, Jahangir Khan Tareen, Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah, Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan, KPK Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, Governor Sindh Imran Ismail, Governor KPK Shah Farman, Governor Balochistan Aman Ullah Khan, Federal Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, provincial ministers, former PM Nawaz Sharif, opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif, MPAs, MNAs and people from different walks of life have condoled the Chief Minister Usman Buzdar over the sad demise of his father and extended sympathies to him.