Islamabad: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has announced to observe one-day national mourning on Sunday in honour of Awami National Party leader Bashir Ahmed Bilour, who was killed on Saturday in a suicide attack.
Ashraf also said that flags would be flown at half-mast during the mourning.
President Asif Ali Zardari and all prominent political leaders of the country condemned the attack at an ANP meeting in Peshawar that killed the provincial minister and eight others.
Bilour’s funeral prayer will be offered at Sher Khan Stadium at 2pm on Sunday while the burial will take place at his native graveyard on Peshawar’s Syed Pir Hussain Road.
The KP government has announced a three-day while the ANP called for ten-day mourning over Bashir’s death.
Meanwhile, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and government of Sindh have announced one day each while
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has also called for three-day mourning and both the PPP and the Sindh government have declared Sunday as a day of mourning.
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