Islamabad: Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Pakistan’s prominent religious scholar and former amir (president) of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), was laid to rest in Nowshera district after his funeral prayer was offered at motorway road in Peshawar city of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa on Sunday.
Large number of religious leaders, politician including Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, General Hamid Gul, Aftab Khan Sherpao, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Saddique Al-Farooq, Professor Khusheed Ahmed, Engineer Amir Muqam and hundreds of JI activists attended the funeral prayer led by JI Amir Syed Munawar Hassan.
Hussain, who had been suffering from heart disease for quite a while and was being treated at Maroof Hospital in F-10, Islamabad, passed away at around 1am on Sunday.
His body was taken to Ziarat Kaka Sahib, district Nowshera from Peshawar and laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard.
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf expressed their condolences to Mr Ahmad’s family.
He was the third amir of the Jamaat-i-Islami, believed to be the largest and the most organised religious political party of Pakistan.
Mr Ahmad remained in office from October 7 1987 to March 29, 2009.
He became member of the party in 1970 and was elected to the office of president of its Peshawar branch. He served the JI as secretary and then amir of KP.
He was raised to the office of JI secretary general in 1978 and after elected as its amir in 1987. He got re-elected four more times (1992, 1994, 1999, 2003).
In 2009, he decided to step down from his post because of his deteriorating health.
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