Funeral prayer of the father of senior officer of MI&B & PIO Mubasher Hassan, Ghulam Raza offered, laid to rest in Peshawar

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD, July 20 (SABAH): The father of the senior officer of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Principal Information Officer (PIO) Mubasher Hassan, Ghulam Raza passed away at the age of 94 years.

The funeral prayer of the deceased was offered at Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Colony, Jamrud Road, Peshawar.

The funeral prayer of the deceased was attended by a large number of people including Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Faisal Karim Kundi, media coordinator of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Assistant Secretary General Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Badar Shahbaz Warraich, Director General Information Services Academy Arshad Munir, speech writer of PM, Arshad Malik, media team members of prime minister, officers and officials of the ministry of information and broadcasting and its attached departments, retired bureaucrats, senior journalists, column writers and people from different walks of life.

Later on the deceased was laid to rest at Peshawar Cantonment graveyard.

Meanwhile Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar Advocate has expressed grief and sorrow over the death of Principal Information Officer Mubasher Hassan’s father.

Attaullah Tarar prayed higher status in heaven for the departed soul and courage for the bereaved family to bear this irreparable loss.

Meanwhile Senior Minister Punjab Marriyum Aurangzeb and PML-N Parliamentary Party Leader in Senate and Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Irfan Siddiqui expressed condolences with Mubasher Hassan on the death of his father over telephone. They prayed higher status in heaven for the departed soul and courage for the bereaved family to bear this irreparable loss.

Meanwhile former federal minister Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah, former information ministers Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan, Muhammad Ali Durrani, former MNA Nadeem Afzal Chan, Senator Sherry Rehman, MNA Bilal Azhar Kayani, senior PPP leader Syed Hassan Murtaza and other leaders have also offered condolences on the death of the father of PIO Mobasher Hassan. These leaders have prayed higher status in heaven for the departed soul and courage for the bereaved family to bear this irreparable loss.